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SHELBY  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


1854-  1869, 


O  there  are  Voices  of  the  Past, 
Links  of  a  broken  chain, 

Wings  that  bear  me  back  to  Times 
Which  cannot  come  again: 

Yet  God  forbid  that  I  should  lose 
The  echoes  that  remain. 

-ADELAIDE    A.     PROCTER. 


EDITED    BY 


8HELBYVILLE,  ILLINOIS: 

Printed  at  the  Office  of  OUB  BEST  WOKDS. 
MDCCCLXXXVI. 


IN  GRATEFUL  REMEMBRANCE 

OF    THE 

FOUNDERS,  TEACHERS,  TRUSTEES  AND  STUDENTS 

OF 

SHELBY  SEMINARY 

THIS  VOLUME 

IS  NOW  AFFECTIONATELY  INSCRIBED. 


ERRATA: —Read  on  page  15,  third  line  from  top,  Okaw  Democrat  in- 
stead of  "Patriot;"  and  in  second  line  from  bottom  of  same  page  Mary  C. 
instead  of  Mary  "E."  Woodward.  On  page  16,  twentieth  line  from  top, 
read  to,  instead  of  "in,"  memory;  and  on  page  28th,  fourth  line  from  bottom, 
read  Kate  H.  instead  of  Kate  "P."  Smith.  On  page  57,  third  line  from 
bottom,  omit  "Lieutenant  Colonel"  and  sixth  and  seventh  lines  from  bottom, 
read  Vicksburg  and  Hatohie  in  place  of  "Stone  River"  and  "Donelson." 
At  bottom  of  page  66  read  1862  instead  of  "1861."  The  teacher  of  that 
name  on  page  66  should  be  spelled  Rhoads  instead  of  "Rhodes."  On  page 
99,  second  line  from  bottom,  read  April  1868  instead  of  "about  1862  or  1863." 

A  star  opposite  a  name  in  catalogue  indicates  death.  The  following 
names  should  be  thus  marked,  to-wit:  Henry  R.  Oheeney,  William  B.  Selby, 
Eliza  H.  Huber  (Bell).  Rachel  E.  Haydon  (Peden),  Anna  Basye,  Thomas 
Stewart,  and  perhaps  others. 

The  following  names  should  appear  in  the  list  of  students  beginning  on 
page  67,  namely:  Jacob  Swallow  (who  by  the  way  is  editor  of  the  Pana 
Palladium  and  one  of  the  best  printers  in  the  state),  Henry  McGullion, 
Alice  Wright  and  Alice  Keeler,  and  there  may  be  others  omitted  of  whom  we 
have  not  learned  to  our  regret. 


CHARLES    W.  JEROME. 


PREFACE. 


In  preparing  this  memorial  of  Shelby  Seminary  the  editor  has  en- 
countered many  difficulties.  The  S  eminary  (called  Academy  at  first)  began 
over  thirty  years  ago.  Over  one  thousand  students  attended  during 
the  fifteen  years  of  its  existence.  These  are  now  scattered  over  America 
from  Massachusetts  to  California  and  from  the  extreme  northern  territories 
to  Texas.  In  preparing  this  volume  which  has  taken  the  spare  moments  of 
our  busy  pastoral  life  for  more  than  a  year,  we  have  addressed  written  or 
printed  letters  to  all  whose  post  office  was  known,asking  for  information;  and 
besides,  there  have  been  freqiient  notices  through  OUR  BEST  WORDS,  a 
periodical  published  at  Shelbyville,  Illinois.  But  not  more  than  one-fourth 
of  the  thousand  and  more  students  have  responded. 

We  have  succeeded  in  obtaining  all  the  names  of  students  and 
teachers  during  Prof.  Jerome's  connection  with  the  school;  but  the  history- 
is  unavoidably  incomplete,  and  there  are  no  doubt  some  errors  in  names, 
dates,  etc.,  despite  of  the  care  and  pains  taken  to  avoid  them.  Why  are 
there  not  more  biographical  sketches,  does  some  oue  ask?  The  answer 
is,  first,  because  the  editor  was  not  furnished  the  data;  and  secondly,  if  the 
data  had  been  at  hand,  we  could  not  have  prepared  and  published  sketches 
of  all,  without  greatly  increased  expense  for  which  there  was  no  provision. 

In  order  to  add  interest  and  value  to  the  book,  all  the  trustees  and 
teachers  and  many  of  the  students  whose  addresses  were  known,  were 
solicited  to  lend  their  portraits  to  its  pages;  and  a  goodly  number 
as  will  be  seen,  have  kindly  consented  to  do  this.*  Very  certainly,  all 
of  the  friends  of  the  institution  -will  regret  that  many  more  have  not 
contnbuted  in  this  way. 

*In  allowing  his  own  likeness  and  the  too  kind  sketch  of  his  life  (written  by  another^ 
to  appear  in  the  following  pages,  the  editor  has  but  yielded  to  the  universally  expressed 
wish  of  those  who  had  a  right  to  speak  and  whose  urgent  requests,under  the  circum- 
stances, he  (the  editor)  did  not  feel  free  to  disregard 


iv.  PREFACE. 

It  was  customary  to- hold  annual  exhibitions  only  at  the  close  of  the 
Fall  and  Winter  Terms,  which  usually  occurred  in  February.  There  was 
always  a  printed  program  of  these  exhibitions  and  they  Avere  generally 
largely  attended  and  received  particular  notice  from  the  local  press.  The 
closing  exercises  of  the  year  which  usually  occurred  in  July  consisted 
mainly  of  public  examinations  of  the  various  classes,  the  exercises  being 
interspersed  with  music,  declamations  and  the  reading  of  compositions. 
There  were  rarely  any  printed  programs  of  these,  which  accounts  for  the 
meagre  information  we  have  been  enabled  to  obtain  of  the  exercises  at  the 
close  of  each  Academical  year. 

Without  the  aid  of  a  few  generous  friends  this  memorial  could  not 
have  been  printed;  and  even  with  this  subsidy,  if  all  the  copies  printed  are 
sold  at  the  price  offered,  the  book  will  scarcely  pay  expenses.  Among  the 

generous  and  cheerful    helpers  Mr.   George   Edward  Dilley  of  Palestine, 

t 

Texas,  deserves  the  united  thanks  of  all  concerned.  To  him  our  thanks  are 
due  for  means  to  pay  for  the  picture  of  the  old  Seminary  building  and 
for  additional  funds  required  for  the  more  neat  binding  of  the  book. 

For  valuable  suggestions  and  assistance  in  various  ways  the  editor 
expresses  thanks  to  the  following  persons:  Prof.  C.  W.  Jerome,  Hon.  S.  W. 
Moulton,  Judge  Anthony  Thornton,  Charles  L.  Howard,  Dr.  E.  E.  Wag- 
goner, Hon.  George  B.  Wendling  and,  besides  these  named,  our  thanks  are 
due  many  others  for  favors  in  securing  information.  The  editor  has  gladly 
done  his  work  as  a  labor  of  love,  amidst  other  arduous  duties,  and  is  only 
sorry  that  it  could  not  have  been  better  done.  But  such  as  we  have  been 
able  to  make  it,  is  hiimbly  submitted  to  the  charitable  judgment  of  all 
the  dear  teachers,  students,  school-mates  and  friends  of  the  school  so 
precious  to  memory.  BY  THE  EDITOR. 


LIST  OF  POETBAITS. 

OLD  SEMINARY  BUILDING,  Frontispiece. 

CHARLES  W.  JEROME,  To  face  page  1 

MRS.  EUGENIA  A.  JEROME,  "  "  3 

ANTHONY  THORNTON,  "  "  9 

S.  W.  MOULTON,  "  "  19 

GEORGE  WENDLING,  "  "  27 

MICHAEL  D.  GREGORY,  "  "  37 

CYRUS  HALL,  "  "  43 

CHARLES  WOODWARD,  "  "  54 

JOSEPH  OLIVER,        -  "  "  58 

GEORGE  B.  WENDLING,  "  "  74 

JASPER  L.  DOUTHIT,  "  "  82 

A  GROUP  OF  FOUR  SISTERS,  -                                               "  "  86 

WALTER  C.  HEADEN,  "  "  95 

DR.  ENOS  PENWELL,         -  "  "  98 

GEORGE  V.  PENWELL,  "  "  100 

THE  Two  PENWELL  SISTERS,  -                                              •"  "  104 

THIRRISSA  TRAVIS  (GRAYBILL),  "  "  110 


CONTENTS. 


INTRODUCTION.     S.  W.  Moulton.        -  1 

HISTORY  OF  THE  BUILDING  OF  SHELBY  ACADEMY.  4 

The  original  Trustees. — The  names  of  subscribers  and  the 

amount  of    each  subscription. — Change  from  Academy  to 

Seminary. — Anthony  Thornton. 
HISTOEY  OF  THE  SCHOOL.  -         -       10 

The  First  Session. — Fac-simile  of    Program  of    First  Ex- 
hibition. 
THEFIEST  ACADEMICAL  YE AE,  1854-5.  -       13 

Fac-simile  of    Programs  of  Second  Exibition. — Notice  by 

Okaw  Democrat,  A.  Thornton,  editor. 

SECOND  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1855-6.  -  -      16 

THIRD  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1856-7.  -  -       17 

A  letter  from  Rev.  J.  L.  Crane. 
FOURTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1857-8.        -  -         -      20 

Copy  of  Programs  of    closing  exercises. — Report  to  local 

papers  by  D.  C.  Smith. 
FIFTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1858-9.  -      22 

Semi-annual  exercises. 
SIXTH  AND  SEVENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1859-60;  1860-1.      24 

Advertising  Circular. — Grand  Vocal  Concert. — Personations. 

— Program  of  closing  Exercises. 
EIGHTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1861-2.  27 

Closing  exercises. — Notices  of  the  Press. — C.  W.  Jerome's 

Resignation. — The  Missing  Record. 
TWELFTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1865-6.  -      29 

Program  of  Closing  Exercises. 
THIRTEENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1866-7.  -      30 

Closing  Exercises. — Notices  by  Shelby  Union,  P.  T.  Martin, 

editor,  and  Shelby  County   Times,  George    R.   Wendling, 

editor. 
FOURTEENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1867-8.  -      32 

Program  of    Closing   Excercises.  —  Notices  by  the   Central 

Illinois   Commercial,  the   Shelby  Union   and  the  Shelby 

County  Times. 


vi  CONTENTS. 

FIFTEENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1868-9.  34 

Program  of  Closing  Exercises  and  Notices  of  the  Press. 

CHANGE ! CHANGE ! CHANGE !  -   37 

AFTER  THE  LAST  CLOSING  EXERCISES.  -      38 

Tokens  of  Eduring  Regard  to  the  Principal. — Prof.  Jerome's 
Letter  of  Final  Resignation. — A  Farewell  Meeting. — A 
Just  Tribute.— The  Re-union  in  1870. 

THE  PLATONIAN  SOCIETY  AND  PROHIBITION.        -        -      41 

THE  TRUSTEES-THEIR  PICTURES  AND  THEIR  LIVES.  45 
Rand  Higgins. — George  Fisher. — John  Selby. — Judson  A. 
Roundy. — W.  J.  Henry. — Michael  D.  Gregory. — John  D. 
Bruster. — James  Durban. — Joseph  Oliver. —  George  Wend- 
liiig. — Anthony  Thornton. — Charles  E.  Woodward. — Charles 
C.  Scovil.— Samuel  W.  Moulton.— Cyrus  Hall. 

COPY  OF  "FIRST  ANNUAL    CATALOGUE  OF    SHELBY 

MALE  AND  FEMALE  ACADEMY  MDCCCLVI,"  (With      59 
names  of  present  residence  of  students). 

NAMES  OF  STUDENTS  AND  TEACHERS.  -      66 

A  Complete  List  Alphabetically  arranged. 

THEY  ARE  NOT  FORGOTTEN.  72 

SKETCHES  OF  SOME  OF  THE  TEACHERS  AND  STU- 
DENTS. 75 
Charles  W.  Jerome  and  Eugenia  A.  M.  Jerome. — Caleb  C. 
Burroughs. — Robert  M.  Bell  and  Eliza  Huber  Bell.— Jasper 
L.  Douthit. — A  Group  of  Four  Sisters. — Parkhurst  T.  Martin. 
George  R.  Wendling. — Walter  C.  Headen. — Dr.  Penwell  and 
Children. 

SHORT  SKETCHES  OF  TEACHERS  AND  STUDENTS.  99 

Jacob  C.  Miller. — Ann  E.  Rhoads. — lone  F.  Daniels.-  Lou 
M.  Mason. — Mattie  B.  Smith.— James  M.  North. — Anna 
Headen.-  Thirrissa  Travis  and  others. 

A  GLIMPSE  AT  MORE  THAN  ONE  HUNDRED  WHO   RE- 
MAIN IN  SHELBYVILLE  TO  THIS  DAY.  103 
ABOUT  SOME  WHO  ARE  SCATTERED  ABROAD.               -    110 
CONCLUDING  REFLECTIONS.— FAITH-HOPE-CHARITY.           -    115 


MRS.  EUGENIA  A.  JEROME. 


INTRODUCTION. 

The  object  of  the  following  pages  is  to  rescue  from  oblivion 
whatever  remains  of  the  reminiscences  and  traditions  of  the  in- 
stitution known  at  first  as  "Shelby  Academy,"  and  afterwards  as 
"Shelby  Seminary." 

Biography,  individual  achievements,  and  accomplished  facts 
always  possess  great  local  interest  to  those  who  have  been  con- 
temporary and  participants  in  whatever  is  attempted  to  be  re- 
counted and  preserved. 

The  sailor,  who  has  shared  the  perils  of  the  sea,  with  his 
comrades  never  ceases  in  his  love  and  respect  for  those  with 
whom  he  has  braved  the  dangers  of  the  deep,  and  never  tires  in 
repeating  or  of  hearing  retold  the  story  of  the  storrn,  tempest 
and  shipwreck  with  which  he  was  connected.  The  same  is  true 
of  the  old  soldier.  He  repeats  the  story  of  the  tented  field,,  the 
bloody  campaign  and  battles  won.  The  name  or  achievements 
of  his  comrades,  whether  living  or  dead,  never  fails  to  thrill  his 
heart  with  tenderest  emotion,  and  to  arouse  his  memory  to  recol- 
lections of  his  earlier  and  better  days. 

The  same  sentiment  of  love  and  respect  for  those  with  whom 
we  have  shared  pleasures,  triumphs  or  discipline  is  equally 
strongly  developed  among  those  who  have  struggled  through  the 
village  school  up  the  Hill  of  Science.  Attachments  are  there 
formed  among  students  that  last  through  life,  and  are  intimately 
interwoven  with  our  whole  destiny: 

"Our  earlier  days!  show  often  back 
The  turn  on  life's  bewildering  track; 
To  where  over  hill  and  valley  plays 
The  sunlight  of  our  earlier  days. 

It  is  greatly  to  be  regretted  that  no  more  complete  history 
of  the  work  and  influence  of  Shelby  Seminary  can  be  given  than 


INTRODUCTION. 

is  furnished  by  the  fragments  gathered  by  kind  friends  and  here 
presented  to  the  public.  Much  that  was  done,  and  the  struggles 
that  wera  made  by  the  noble  men  and  women  who  sustained  the 
institution  in  its  darkest  days,  can  never  be  written  or  known, 
and  are  lost  forever.  But  the  results  of  the  efforts  of  the  former 
friends  of  the  Seminary,  will  be  remembered  with  grateful 
hearts  by  the,  then  boys  and  girls,  but  now  men  and  women, 
who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  be  the  recipients  of  instruction  at 
the  hands  of  Professor  Jerome  and  the  teachers  in  the  insti- 
tution. 

These  fragments  of  porsoiial  history,  of  sunshine  and  cloud, 
will  be  read  by  friends  and  former  students  of  the  Seminary, 
we  venture  to  predict  with  pleasure  and  deep  interest.  Their 
memories  will  be  refreshed  by  many  a  pleasant  reminiscence  of 
old  friends  and  sunny  days.  And  doubtless  many  a  hiatus  in 
this  narrative  could  be  supplied  from  the  memory  of  the  reader 
and  we  hope  it  may  be  done,  thus  making  the  history  more 
complete  than  it  now  is.  These  fragments  will  awaken  old 
friendships,  and  former  pupils  will  be  carried  back  to  the  days 
when 

"Happy  the  school  boy,  did  he  know  his  bliss, 
'Twere  ill  exchanged  for  all  the  dazzling  gems 
That  sparkle  in  ambition's  eye." 

Of  the  former  patrons  of  the  Seminary  many  have  passed 
to  their  last  resting  place.  Its  students  are  the  citizens  of  to- 
day, and  the  county  and  state  are  profiting  by  the  good  seed 
sown  during  the  fifteen  years  of  the  existence  of  the  institution. 

We  rejoice  that  this  effort  has  been  made  to  preserve 
whatever  there  is  that  remains  to  us  of  the  grand  "Old  Seminary" 
whose  influence  for  good  by  no  means  ceased  with  the  ending  of 
its  existence.  Its  history  is  intimately  connected  with  the  pros- 
perity of  our  county,  and  its  work  greatly  promoted  the  hap- 
piness of  our  best  citizens.  May  the  memory  of  it  give  pleasure 
to  all.  S.  "W.  MOULTON. 

Shelbi/rille,  Illinois,  July,  1886. 


SHELBYVILLE    SEMINARY. 


FOUNDING   OF   SHELBY  ACADEMY,  AFTERWARDS 
SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY. 

Prior  to  the  year  1852,  Shelbyville  had  no  public  school 
building.  Our  schools  were  taught,  sometimes  in  one  house; 
sometimes  in  another.  The  school  fund  yielded  only  a  small 
amount,  and  the  patrons  of  the  school  had  to  make  up  the  de- 
ficiency of  the  teacher's  salary. 

In  the  fall  of  1852, — nearly  thirty-four  years  ago — a  feeling 
was  awakened  in  the  community,  in  favor  of  the  erection  of  a 
substantial  and  commodious  building,  to  be  used  solely  for  edu- 
cational purposes.  Thirty-four  years  ago,  our  population  was 
small;  our  people  poor;  and  one-half  of  the  territory  of  our 
present  beautiful  city  was  a  forest.  Then  public  enterprises 
moved  slowly. 

After  considerable  consultation,  however,  and  due  consider- 
ation of  all  the  difficulties,  the  citizens  of  Shelbyville,  in  October 
1852,  met  and  adopted  a  resolution  to  procure  the  necessary 
funds,  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  ground,  and  the  erection 
of  suitable  buildings  thereon,  to  be  used  wholly  as  an  insti- 
tution of  learning.  The  next  step  was  the  selection  of  trustees. 
While  it  was  universally  agreed  that  the  institution  should  not 
be,  in  any  sense,  sectarian,  it  was  also  suggested  and  generally 
acquiesced  in,  that  it  was  safer  and  wiser  and  would  be  more  con- 
ducive to  success,  to  have  the  school  under  the  protecting  care 
of  some  church,  and  foster  it  by  religious  influence. 

Accordingly,  in  connection  with  the  Rev.  Hiram  Buck, — 
then  the  resident  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
in  Shelbyville, — the  citizens  agreed  that  the  following  persons 
should  constitute  the  first  Board  of  Trustees,  viz:  John  D. 


5  SHELBYVILLE   SEMINABY  ]\IEMORIAL. 

Brewster,  Hand  Higgins,  George  W.  Fisher,  Charles  C.  Scovil, 

Joseph  Oliver,  John  C.  Selby  and  Anthony  Thornton. 

Then  we  had  only  one  church  building  in  town, — the  Meth- 
odist. The  "Christian"  organization  worshipped  in  the  old  Court 
House. 

The  association,  thus  formed,  was  a  voluntary  one,  and  to 
secure  the  purposes  of  the  organization  the  board  of  trustees,  at 
the  first  meeting,  prepared  and  executed  the  following  declar- 
ation : — 

The  undersigned,  citizens  of  Shelby  County,  Illinois,  having  been  re- 
quested by  the  "Shelby ville  Quarterly  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church,"  to  act  as  trustees  for  the  purposes  hereinafter  mentioned,  do 
declare, — 

FIRST:  That  we  will  use  our  utmost  efforts  to  obtain  necessary  funds, 
which  shall  be  wholly  applied  by  us  to  the  purchase  of  necessary  lots  of 
ground,  and  the  erection  and  completion  of  necessary  and  suitable  buildings 
thereon,  to  be  used  solely  as  an  institution  of  learning. 

SECOND:  That  said  institution  shall  be  located  in  Shelby  ville,  Illinois, 
and  shall  be  called  the  "Shelby  Academy." 

THIRD:  That  said  institution  shall  be  under  the  patronage  of  the 
•'Illinois  Annual  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  which 
may  appoint  a  board  of  visitors  annually;  but  no  profession  of  religious  faith 
shall  be  required  of  those,  who  may  become  students  therein,  nor  shall  any 
sectarian  doctrine  of  religion  be  taught  therein. 

FOURTH  :  That  the  quarterly  conference  of  the  Shelby  ville  circuit  of 
the  Illinois  Annual  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  shall  have 
power  to  nominate  siiitable  persons  to  fill  any  vacancies  that  may  occur  in 
the  Board  of  Trustees,  which  nomination  may  be  accepted  or  rejected  by. the 
Board,  for  the  time  in  existence. 

FIFTH  :  That  the  trustees  shall  have  power  to  select  and  appoint  nec- 
essary teachers,  regulate  the  course  of  studies,  fix  the  rates  of  tuition,  erect 
necessary  buildings  and  generally  to  manage  the  affairs  and  concerns  of  said 
Institution,  and  to  do  all  that  may  be  necessary  for  its  success. 

SIXTH:  That  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  not  exceed  seven,  nor  be 
less  than  five. 

All  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  incorporated  in  a  special  charter 
to  be  hereafter  obtained  from  the  Legislature. 

Given  under  our  hands  and  seals  this  14th  day  of  February,  A.  D.  1853. 

[SIGNED.]  JOHN  D.  BREWSTER.    [Seal.]   , 

G.  W.  FISHER.  [Seal.] 

BAND  HIGGINS.  [Seal.] 

CHARLES  C.  SCOVIL.  [Seal.] 
ANTHONY  THORNTON.  [Seal.] 
JOSEPH  OLIVER.  [Seal.] 


SHELBYVILLE   SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  6 

All  the  trustees  signed  the  foregoing  declaration,  except  Mr. 
Selby.  He  acted,  in  sympathy  with  the  board,  in  all  its  efforts. 
Indeed  all  the  members  labored  earnestly,  in  the  accomplish- 
ment of  the  common  object.  Except  the  writer,  all  the  trustees 
have  gone  to 

"The  undiscovered  country,  from  whose  bourn 
No  traveler  returns." 

1  knew  them  well.  They  were  men,  good  and  true;  and. 
were  well  suited  to  lay  the  foundations — deep  and  broad — of  a 
happy  and  prosperous  community.  Substantial,  industrious  and 
enterprising  pioneers,  they  removed  the  obstructions  and  pre- 
pared the  way,  for  the  present  generation. 

The  Board  of  trustees  was  organized,  by  the  election  of 
Charles  G.  Scovil  as  president,  and  the  writer  as  secretary  and 
treasurer.  One  acre  of  ground  was  purchased  of  Rev.  William 
S.  Prentice,  tor  three  hundred  dollars,  and  on  the  24th  day  of 
March,  1853,  a  deed  was  made  to  the  persons  above  mentioned 
"trustees  of  the  Shelby  Academy,  and  their  successors  in  office." 
On  the  22d  day  of  April,  1853,  we  contracted  with  Andrew  Scott, 
of  Moultrie  county,  for  the  brick- work  of  the  building;  with 
Richard  B.  Miller  for  the  carpenter's  work;  with  John  H.  Dren- 
nan  for  the  plastering;  and  with  J.  C.  Campbell  for  the  painting. 

The  necessary  funds  were  procured  through  the  assiduous 
efforts  of  Rev.  C.  W.  C.  Munsell.  He  was  earnest  and  inde- 
fatigable, and  obtained  subscriptions  to  an  amount  over  four 
thousand  dollars.  No  one  man  deserves  more  credit  for  the 
success  of  the  "Shelby  Academy"  than  Mr.  Munsell. 

As  some  evidence  of  the  public  spirit  of  the  time,  and  the 
liberality  of  the  people,  I  furnish  the  names  of  subscribers,  and 
the  amounts  subscribed  by  them. 

Rand  Higgins  subscribed  $320;  Gen.  W.  F.  Thornton,  $300; 
George  Wendling,  Charles  C.  Scovil  and  John  D.  Brewster,  each, 
$250;  Sarah  J.  Dexter,  $150;  C.  W.  C.  Munsell,  $200;  George  W. 
Fisher  and  John  C.  Selby,  each,  $120;  William  Head  en,  Charles 
E.  Woodward,  George  W.  Scollay,  James  M.  Selby,  Alexander 


7  SHELBYVILLE   SEMINARY   MEMORIAL. 

Boys,  Anthony  Thornton  and  M.  D.  Gregory,  each,  $100;  Jacob 
Golloher  $75;  J.  A.  Roundy  $70;  Burrel  Roberts,  S.  W.  Moulton, 
W.  M.  Osborn,  Isaac  V.  Lee,  R.  B.  Miller,  George  W.  Hatfield, 
Shem  Garvin,  W.  A.  Harrison,  Robert  Pugh,  Bart.  Durkee, 
Henry  Huber,  L.  Munsell  and  Joseph  Oliver,  each  $50;  Wm. 
Hardy  and  Wm.  Eversole,  each  $40;  E.  G.  Shallenberger  $35; 
William  Freyberger,  John  Middles  worth,  'Wm.  Davis,  A.  Mid- 
dlesworth,  Porter  Bivins,  John  R.  Eden,  John  H.  Dawdy,  R.  F. 
Chenny,  W.  B.  Jackson,  J.  C.  Campbell,  John  Cutler,  Jacob  R. 
Kellar,  John  L.  Small,  A.  Dagan,  AV.  R.  Bivins,  James  Durban, 
Daniel  Downs,  John  Pugh,  Benedict  Weakly,  Wm.  Middles- 
worth,  Wm.  Hall  and  Daniel  Golloher,  each  $25;  Mason  B. 
Kelly  $30;  Eli  Waller,  John  L.  Small,  George  C.  Arnold,  Thos. 
Calvert,  Wm.  Williamson,  Lafayette  Wright  and  C.  D.  Lufkin, 
each  $20;  I.  Burnett,  W.  A.  Trower,  Josiah  Garvin,  Wm.  Calvert, 
B.  F.  Phelps,  Francis  Winson,  James  B.  Prentice,  James  M. 
Davidson,  C.  M.  Stuart,  B.  F.  Frazier,  and  Wm.  Stewardson, 
each  $15 ;  Jacob  Sittler,  Michael  Brown,  Jacob  Small,  Franklin 
Thorpe,  Wesley  Golloher,  Jacob  Kensil,  John  Scroggins,  Benj. 
Tallrnan,  Wm.  Williams,  Henry  Fearman,  J.  L.  Br  Turner,  V. 
Tressler,  James  Gaskill,  Thomas  Reed,  Wm.  Miller,  Jefferson 
Brewster,  Thomas  Roberts,  Litton  Smith,  Wm.  Carnes,  Jacob 
Lump,  James  P.  Roberts,  A.  H.  Dutton,  John  L.  Thomas  and 
Franklin  Hannaman,  each  $.10;  Thomas  Atkinson,  James  A. 
Robinson,  George  Rouse,  Joseph  F.  Brown,  John  Webb,  Wm. 
Patient,  David  Ewing,  Charles  Hart,  Daniel  Bowman,  James 
M.  Hall,  Robert  Weakly,  Geo.  W.  Hardy,  Stephen  Waggoner, 
Russell  Waggoner,  James  Cochran,  David  Storm,  Thomas 
Carnes,  James  Weakly,  John  Weakly,  James  McDaniel,  Win. 
Peifer,  S.  Severns  and  G.  W.  Clinkenbeard,  each  $5.  There 
were  a  few  other  trifling  subscriptions,  which  need  not  be  enum- 
erated. 

All  the  work  on  the  building  having  been  contracted,  its 
completion  was  pushed  with  a  determination,  deserving  of  suc- 
cess. The  funds  were  promptly  collected,  and  payment  was 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  8 

made  for  all  material  and  labor.  The  building,  when  completed, 
was  suited  for  the  purpose  intended.  There  was  nothing  ornate 
in  the  architecture.  It  was  a  substantial  brick  building, — the 
second  brick  structure  erected  in  the  town, — and  it  stands,  to- 
day, a  monument  to  the  enterprise  and  liberality  of  the  people, 
thirty-four  years  ago. 

The  building  was  not  ready  for  the  teachers  and  pupils,  un- 
til in  the  year  of  1854  A  corps  of  excellent  teachers  was  em- 
ployed, and  the  "Shelby  Academy"  became  a  fixed  fact.  Good 
and  noble  men  and  fair  and  intelligent  women  were  there  edu- 
cated. This  was  the  beginning  of  our  present  grand  graded 
school. 

With  some  changes,  the  original  trustees  continued  to  act 
for  a  number  of  years.  In  the  year  1857  the  following  resolution 
was  adopted  by  the  Board: — 

Resolved,  That  the  "Shelby  Academy"  be  elevated  to  the  grade  of  a 
Seminary  proper,  so  there  will  be  no  preparatory  department,  connected 
with  the  same. 

From  that  time  forward  the  humble  institution  was  called 
the  Shelby  Seminary.  In  1859,  when  the  writer  severed  his  con- 
nection with  the  Board,  it  consisted  of  the  following  persons: 
Cyrus  Hall,  Charles  C.  Scovil,  Anthony  Thornton,  Judson  A. 
Roundy,  Charles  E.  Woodward,  John  C.  Selby  and  George 
Wendling. 

The  school  was  managed  successfully,  by  this  voluntary 
association,  for  thirteen  years.  On  the  16th  day  of  February, 
1867,  the  legislature  passed  an  act  of  incorporation,  and  the 
name  of  the  old  institution  was  changed  to  "Shelbyville  Semi- 
nary," and  the  "Shelby  Academy"  ceased  to  exist.  It  elevated 
the  standard  of  education,  and  brightened  the  pathway  of  our 
youth,  who  aspired  to  a  higher  excellency  in  learning.  It  has 
accomplished  its  mission,  and  is  "numbered  with  the  things  that 
were."  Memory  loves  to  linger  around  the  old  building,  review 
its  history  and  recall  the  joy  and  pride  which  witnessed  its  com- 
pletion and  success. 

I  have   thus  given  the   salient  facts  in   the  history  of  the 


9  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

"Shelby  Academy."  For  nearly  fifty  years  the  writer  has  been 
a  resident  of  Shelbyville.  In  that  time  the  town  has  grown 
from  a  small,  muddy  and  straggling  village,  to  a  beautiful  city, 
with  ornate  dwellings,  increased  educational  facilities,  and  with 
numerous  churches  whose  spires  point  the  way  to  Heaven. 
Fashion  too  has  kept  pace  with  the  general  progress.  Home- 
spun manners  and  homespun  clothing  have  disappeared.  With 
all  the  changes  there  has  been  no  improvement  upon  the  indus- 
try and  genuine  hospitality,  the  kindness  and  honesty,  the  true 
manhood  and  sturdy  virtues  of  the  pioneers  of  the  "olden  time." 

ANTHONY  THORNTON. 

Shelbyville,  III,  July,  1886. 


THORNTON. 


HISTOKICAL  SKETCH  OF  "SHELBY  SEMINARY." 


The  foundation  of  the  "Shelby  Academy"  building  was  laid 
late  in  the  autumn  of  1853,  with  the  expectation  that  it  would  be 
ready  for  occupation  in  the  following  spring.  The  position  of 
principal  at  $75  per  month  was  offered  to  S.  W.  Moulton,  who 
had  settled  in  Shelbyville  two  years  before.  He  declined,  and 
after  considerable  search  for  the  right  man  for  the  place  the 
Board  was  fortunate  in  securing  the  services  of  Mr.  Charles  W. 
Jerome,  who  was  then  teaching  in  the  Seminary  located  at  Dan- 
ville, Illinois.  Consequently,  late  in  December,  there  appeared 
in  the  columns  of  the  Shelbyville  Banner,  a  weekly  paper  then 
published  and  edited  by  Phillip  Shutt,  the  following  laconic: 
SCHOOL  NOTICE. 

The  Trustees  of  Shelby  Academy  have  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  C. 
W.  Jerome,  A.  B.,  as  Principal  of  the  institution.  The  school  will  be  opened 
on  the  16th  day  of  March  next.  J.  D.  BRTJSTER,  President 

of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
December  16th,  1853. 

THE   FIRST   SESSION. 

The  building  was  not  ready  for  occupation  at  the  time  ap- 
pointed, and  in  consequence  the  "Academy"  was  formally  open- 
ed on  Monday  March  20,  1854,  in  the  old  Methodist  church 
which  stood  on  North  Morgan  Street,  where  the  residence  of 
"W.  W.  Hess  now  stands,  with  Prof.  Jerome  as  Principal;  Mr.  R. 
M.  Bell  as  assistant,  and  about  fifty  pupils  in  attendance.  After 
a  few  weeks  the  upper  rooms  of  the  new  building  were  made 
ready  for  use,  and  to  these  the  school  removed  and  continued 
through  its  first  session  of  twenty  weeks,  closing  in  the  follow- 
ing August  with  a  two  day's  examination,  the  results  of  which 
were  entirely  satisfactory  to  patrons,  and  exhibition,  at  the  close 
of  which  an  appropriate  address  was  delivered  by  the  Hon.  S. 
W.  Moulton.  The  following  is  almost  a  f ac-sirnile  of  the  program 
of  this  first  exhibition: 


11  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


SHELBY  ACADEMY. 

EXHIBITION. 


Thursday  Evening,  August  3d,  1854. 

ORDER     OF     EXERCISES. 

— o-o— 
PRAYER. 

MUSIC. 

SALUTATORY,  Frank  W.  Peuwell. 

FAREWELL  TO  MY  COUNTRY.  B.  M.  Davis. 

ONWARD,  Joseph  Oliver. 

A  "FERN  LEAF,"  Francis  M.  Haydon 

MUSIC. 

OUR  SCHOOL  DAYS,  Miss  lone  Gregory. 

TRUE  FRIENDSHIP,  Miss  Mary  H.  Basye. 

CHARITY,  Miss  Sarah  A.  Beattie. 

A  MOTHER'S  LOVE.  Miss  Nancy  M.  Smith. 

MUSIC. 

GRATITUDE.  John  A.  Williams. 

THE  BEST  OF  WIVES,  George  Wendliug. 

DUTIES  OF  AMERICAN  CITIZENS,  Peyton  R.  Story. 

SONG  OF  FROGS,  John  E.  Trower. 

MUSIC. 

FORTITUDE,  Miss  Mary  J.  Beattie. 

BENEVOLENCE,  Miss  Mary  J.  Bruster. 

EDUCATION,  .     Miss  Eliza  Oliver. 

SMILES,  Miss  Esther  Guilford. 

MUSIC. 

No  Excellence  without  Labor,  Charles  B.  Williams. 

American  Literature,  Zimri  Ferguson. 

Natural  History  of  Love,  Nelson  R.  Jones 

Perseverance,  Jasper  Douthit. 

MUSIC. 

BENEDICTION. 

Next  session  opens  Wednesday,  Octob9r  4th,  and  continues  twenty  weeks. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  12 

Of  these  first  twenty  who  spoke  pieces  thirty-four  years 
ago,  so  far  as  we  know,  seven  have  passed  away  from  earth, 
namely:  Joseph  Oliver,  Francis  M.  Haydori,  Miss  Sarah  A. 
Beattie,  Mary  J.  Bruster  (Durkee),  Chas.  B.  Williams,  Zimri 
Ferguson,  Nelson  R.  Jones;  six  now  reside  in  Shelbyville, 
B.  M.  Davis,  Miss  lone  Gregory,  Nancy  M.  Smith  ( Mrs.  Chafee ), 
George  R.  Wendling,  Eliza  Oliver  (Mrs.  Oliver),  Mary  H.  Basye 
(Walker),  Jasper  L.  Douthit;  Frank  W.  Penwell  lives  in  Dan- 
ville and  Esther  Guilford  (Davis)  in  Pana,  this  state;  and  John 
E.  Trower  in  Chattanooga,  Tennessee;  and  of  the  four  others,  we 
do  not  know  where  they  are. 

The  thoroughness  of  the  work  of  the  teachers  and  the  fit- 
ness they  displayed  for  the  position  they  occupied,  fixed  the 
school  in  the  hearts  of  the  community.  Its  prospects  had  im- 
proved from  the  beginning.  More  than  one  hundred  pupils  had 
been  enrolled  during  the  first  term. 

THE  FIRST  ACADEMICAL  YEAE,  1854-5. 

It  was  advertised  extensively  for  the  next  year  as  "Shelby 
Male  and  Female  Academy,"  with  Preparatory,  Academic,  and 
Scientific  and  Classical  departments.'  The  building  was  de- 
scribed in  the  advertisements  as  "large  and  commodious," 
as  it  certainly  was  compared  to  the  school  houses  most 
of  us  had  been  used  to  seeing.  Rev.  C.  C.  Burroughs, 
who  had  just  completed  the  scientific  course  in  McKendree 
College,  was  employed  as  Preceptor  and  teacher  of  mathe- 
matics, Mr.  Bell  continuing  as  assistant  in  the  preparatory 
department.  The  school  opened  for  the  fall  session  October 
4th,  1854,  with  an  increased  attendance  and  an  enthusiastic 
working  spirit  which  characterized  it  throughout  its  existence. 
The  serni-annual  examination  of  the  various  classes  began  on 
Tuesday,  February  20,  and  continued  three  days.  On  the 
Sunday  preceding  the  semi-annual  sermon  was  preached  by 
Rev.  O.  S.  Munsell,  A.  M.  On  Wednesday  and  Thursday  even- 
ings occurred  "the  young  gentlemen's  and  ladies'  exhibition." 
Following  are  fac-similes  of  the  two  programs: 


13  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


SHELBY  ACADEMY, 

EXHIBITION, 
Wednesday  Evening,    February  21st,  1855. 


Prayer. 

MUSIC. 

Literary  address  by  A.  THORNTON,  Esq. 

Salutatory  Francis  M.  Haydon, 

Indolence  versus  Industry,  Baalis  M.  Davis, 

Change,  William  Campbell, 

Immortality  of  the  Soul,  William  E.  Horseman, 

MUSIC. 

Memories  of  Home,  Miss  Demma  Parish. 

Deceitfulness,  Miss  Nancy  Higgins, 

True  Beauty,  Miss  Mary  A.  Cutler, 

Home,  Miss  Martha  A.  Fisher, 

MUSIC. 

The  Drunken  Husband,  Elbridge  A.  Oliver, 

Adams  on  the  Declaration,  William  E.  Killam. 

The  Starry  Heavens,  Philip  Rcessler, 

The  Baby's  Complaint,  Charles  J.  Dexter. 

MUSIC. 

Our  School  Days,  Miss  Mary  C.  Woodward, 

Happiness,  Miss  Adda  Harmon, 

Friendship,  Miss  Maria  Guilford, 

Anticipations  of  the  Future,  Miss  Hester  A.  Collord. 

MUSIC. 

The  Pastor's  Soliloquy,  George  R.  Wendling, 

Speech  of  Logan,  Charles  H.  Woodivard, 

Portraiture  of  Boys,  John  E.  Trower, 

"Jack  Frost,"  Frank  W.  Penwell. 

MUSIC. 

Economy,  Miss  Mary  J.  Beattie, 

The  Ball,        I  Miss  Sarah  A.  Beattie, 

A  Response,  $  Miss  lone  Gregory, 

What  I  Love,  Miss  Maria  Smith. 

MUSIC. 

BENEDICTION. 

Next  Session  opens  Wednesday,  March  7th. 


SflELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


14 


SHELBY  ACADEMY, 

EXHTBITION, 
Thursday  Evening,  February  22, 1855. 


Prayer. 


MUSIC. 

Literary  Address  by  Prof.  O.  S.  MUNSELL,  A.  M. 

MUSIC. 


The  Vanity  of  Learning, 
Kossuth  at  Philadelphia, 
The  Wants  of  America, 
Progress  of  Liberty, 


Poetry  and  Music, 
Gratitude, 

Consolations  of  Religion, 
Anger, 


Adams  ar  d  Jefferson, 
Triumphs  of  Knowledge, 
"Solomor.  Still  weather," 
Lochiuvar, 


Pleasures  of  Memory, 
The  Time  to  Die, 
Early  Education, 
Recollections  of  the  Past, 


The  Flora, 


.  March  of  Mind. 
Criminality  of  Duelling, 
The  Patriot's  Courage, 
Valedictory, 


Fieldon  R.  Waggoner, 
Eli  J.  Horseman, 
Samuel  M.  Fisher, 
William  L.  Fleming, 


MUSIC. 


Miss  Sarah  E.  Graham, 
Miss  Belle  Beattie, 
Miss  Mary  J.  Bruster, 
Miss  Eliza  Oliver. 


MUSIC. 


William  Oliver, 
Andrew  Roessler, 
James  J.  DurJeee, 
Nelson  R.  Jones. 


MUSIC. 


Miss  Eliza  Huber, 

Miss  Julia  E.  Wunnenberg, 

Miss  Mary  E.  Guy, 

Miss  Ella  Hall. 


MUSIC. 


Miss  Dora  Canon, 
Miss  Lizzie  Smith. 


MUSIC. 


James  A.  Horseman. 
Joseph  M.  Bivins, 
Burkey  Myers, 
Jasper  M.  Douthit. 


MUSIC. 


BENEDICTION. 

Next  Session  opens  Wednesday,  March  7th. 


15  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

All  whose  names  appear  in  the  foregoing  programs  stood  in 
their  places  at  the  appointed  time,  if  we  remember  correctly. 
Hon.  Anthony  Thornton,  then  editing  The  Okaw  Patriot, 
gave  a  lengthy  and  very  friendly  critical  notice  of  the  various 
exercises.  This  notice  was  no  doubt  preserved  in  several  scrap 
books  as  a  valuable  souvenir.  But  some  who -may  not  have  it 
now  will  be  interested  to  read  the  following  extracts: 

*  *  *  There  seems  to  be  universal  satisfaction  as  to  the  improvement 
of  the  scholars  and  the  efficiency  and  competency  of  the  teachers. 

The  exhibition  at  night  was  also  gratifying  and  pleasant,  with  one  ex- 
ception. And  that  was  the  unusual  jam.  The  Seminary  Hall  will  seat 
comfortably,  about  three  hundred;  but,  by  some  hocus  pocus,  nearly  six 
hundred  persons  were  crowded  and  wedged  into  it.  Such  a  squeeze  as 
there  was  on  both  nights  of  the  exhibition,  we  never  saw  before. 

Essays  were  read  by  the  girls,  and  select  speeches  delivered  by  the  boys. 
All  performed  their  parts  well,  so  far  as  we  could  hear.  Some,  however,  read 
and  spoke  too  low,  and  with  too  much  rapidity ;  and  consequently  the  audience 
could  neither  hear  nor  understand  some  of  the  compositions  and  speeches. 
We  were  particularly  pleased,  on  the  first  night,  with  the  folio  wing  essays: 
"True  Beauty,"  by  Miss  Mary  A.  Cutler;  "Anticipations  of  the  Future,"  by 
Miss  Hester  A.  Collard;  "The  Ball  and  A  Response,"  by  Misses  Sarah  A. 
Beat-tie  and  lone  Gregory ;  and  "What  I  Love,"  by  Miss  Mariah  Smith ;  and 
the  speeches  of  Elbridge  A.  Oliver,  George  R.  Wendling,  Charles  H.  Wood- 
ward, and  Frank  W.  Pen  well. 

On  the  last  night  the  speeches  were  all  good  selections,  and  were  well 
delivered.  We  thought  that  Fieldon  R.  Waggoner,  AVilliam  Oliver,  Andrew 
Rcessler,  James  J.  Durkee,  Nelson  R.  Jones  and  Jasper  L.  Douthit  evi- 
denced fine  powers  of  declamation.  We  did  not  hear  distinctly  the  reading 
of  all  the  essays.  The  reading,  as  well  as  matter  of  the  compositions  of  Misses 
Sarah  E.  Graham,  Belle  Beattie,  Mary  J.  Bruster,  Eliza  Oliver,  and  Ella 
Hall,  seemed  to  please  the  audience.  "The  Flora,"  a  manuscript  paper, 
edited  by  Misses  Dora  Canon  and  Lizzie  Smith,  attracted  great  attention. 
The  articles  were  well  written  and  were  read  with  distinctness  and  fine  mod- 
ulation. * 

The  Shelby ville  Band,  on  the  first  night,  and  the  German  Band,  on  the 
second  night  discoursed  most  excellent  music  to  the  delighted  auditory. 

This  exhibition  will  be  long  remembered  by  our  citizens,  and  proves 
that  we  can  have  a  good  school  in  our  midst;  and  is  an  encouragement  to  all 
to  use  every  laudable  effort  to  maintain  it. 

The  next  term  began  as  advertised  on  foregoing  programs, 
on  March  7th,  1855,  and  .continued  until  the  forepart  of  July 
following,  when  that  scourge,  Asiatic  cholera,  visited  Shelby- 
vine.  On  July  7th,  1855,  Miss  Mary  E.  Woodward,  a  beautiful 
girl  of  sixteen  summers  who  was  much  esteemed  by  all  her  school- 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  16 

mates  and  teachers,  fell  by  the  dread  destroyer  within  ten  hours 
from  the  time  it  first  seized  her,  bright  and  happy  as  she  was, 
at  her  lesson,  and  on  the  play  ground.  This  sudden  death  greatly 
shocked  the  school.  Several  others  were  taken  sick  with 
symptoms  of  cholera;  and  the  Seminary  closed  for  that  year 
some  weeks  before  the  end  of  the  term.  Jasper  L.  Douthit  had 
been  employed  and  advertised  to  continue  the  Primary  Depart- 
ment during  the  summer  vacation;  but  the  contagion  continued 
its  ravages  through  July  and  August.  Many  of  the  inhabitants 
fled,  until  there  was  scarcely  enough  left  in  Shelbyville  to  bury 
the  dead;  and  not  enough  to  wait  on  the  sick  and  dying.  Many 
of  the  more  generous  patrons,  some  of  the  fairest  piipils, — the 
best  beloved  and  the  brightest — withered  away  at  the  touch  of 
the  plague.  Mr.  John  D.  Bruster,  one  of  the  trustees  from  the  be- 
ginning, was  one  of  the  victims.  Among  the  young  and  promis- 
ing who  passed  away,  we  remember  well,  Willie  Dexter,  a  round 
faced,  dimpled-cheeked,  bright-eyed  boy,  admired  and  dearly 
loved  by  all,  and  Miss  Nannie  Basye,  a  noble  young  lady, 
adorned  with  many  graces;  and  several  others  whom  this  brief 
reference  may  help  the  reader  to  recall  in  memory. 

The  number  of  students  for  the  year.  1854-5,  numbered  150. 
At  the  end  of  this  school  year  Mr.  Bell  retired  from  the  corps 
of  teachers,  Jasper  L.  Douthit  taking  his  place  for  ensuing  year, 

THE  SECOND  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1855-6. 

The  next  academical  year  opened  October  3, 1855.  A  depart- 
ment of  music  was  added  to  the  school,  and  Miss  Nancy  J.  Phil- 
lips was  employed  as  teacher  of  music.  It  was  thought  that  His 
Satanic  Majesty  himself  had  been  introduced  into  the  institution, 
when  a  piano  was  secured  for  its  use.  The  new  demon  proved 
to  be  quite  harmless,  however;  indeed  its  influence  was  found  to 
be  very  satisfactory. 

The  corps  of  teachers  for  first  term  was  Professor  Jerome, 
Principal  and  Teacher  of  Mental  and  Moral  Science  and  Latin; 
C.  C.  Burroughs,  Preceptor  and  Teacher  of  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Science;  Miss  Nancy  J.  Phillips,  Teacher  of  Instrumental 


17  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

Music,  and  Jasper  L.  Douthit,  Teacher  in  the  Preparatory  De- 
partment. 

The  semi-annual  examination  began  on  Monday,  February 
18,  1856  and  continued  four  days.  Rev.  I.  H.  Aldrich  delivered 
the  sermon  to  the  pupils  and  patrons  the  Sabbath  preceding, 
in  the  Seminary  Hall,  from  the  text,  "If  ye  know  these  things, 
happy  are  ye  if  ye  do  them."  (John  13:17).  The  exhibitions 
occurred  Wednesday  and  Thursday  evenings  February  20,  and  21. 
Literary  addresses  were  delivered  by  Prof.  J.  F.  Jacques,  A.  M., 
"late  President  of  the  Illinois  Conference  Female  College," 
and  H.  P.  H.  Bromwell  Esq.,  of  the  Fayette  county  bar. 
The  names  of  forty  pupils  appear  on  the  two  programs.  The 
following  are  names  which  appeared  in  these  two  programs  that 
did  not  appear  in  the  first  three  of  which  fac-similes  are  given 
in  foregoing  pages,  namely:  "Wm.  H.  Dawdy,  Chas.  J.  Dexter, 
Amos  A.  Rhodes,  Edward  Harris,  Wm.  H.  Freshwater,  Wm.  S. 
Smith,  Miss  Lucy  E.  Jones,  Henry  R.  Cheney,  Peter  M.  Killam, 
Anson  D.  Sheley,  Miss  Emma  L.  McMorris,  Miss  Kate  Smith, 
Miss  Eliza  Huber,  T.  H.  Graham,  Burkey  Myers.  Miss  Olivia 
Smith  gave  the  valedictory. 

The  Spring  and  Summer  session  opened  March  5,  1856.  In 
consequence  of  the  increasing  demands  upon  the  school,  an  as- 
sistant was  added  to  the  Primary  Department,  Mr.  Burkey 
Myers  being  given  the  position  as  Assistant  Pupil.  At  the  end 
of  the  Fall  and  Winter  term  Miss  Phillips  resigned  as  Teacher 
of  Instrumental  Music,  and  Miss  Olivia  Smith  was  em  ployed  and 
acted  as  Teacher  of  Music  for  the  remainder  of  that  year. 

We  suppose,  of  course,  there  were  the  usual  closing  exercises 
at  the  end  of  the  year,  in  July  1856 ;  but  we  can  find  no  record 
of  them. 

The  First  Annual  Catalogue  was  printed  for  the  year  end- 
ing July  24,  1856.  We  append  a  copy  of  this  catalogue  at  the 
end  of  this  sketch. 

THIRD  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1856-7. 

Under  the  conviction  that  the  severity  of  the   labors   inci- 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  18 

dent  to  the  position  which  he  had  assumed  with  reluctance  two 
years  and  a  half  previously,  were  too  great  for  his  physical 
strength,  in  July,  Mr.  Jerome  tendered  his  resignation.  It  was 
reluctantly  accepted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  Parker  M. 
McFarland,  A.  M.,  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy,  for  the  en- 
suing year.  Rev.  Aaron  M.  Mace  was  elected  to  fill  the  second 
place  on  the  corps  of  teachers,  in  the  place  of  Mr.  Burroughs 
who  had  also  resigned.  Mr.  Douthit  resigned  also .  ( with  the 
purpose  of  going  to  Antioch  College,  at  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio, 
although  he  finally  drifted  to  Wabash  College,  at  Crawfords- 
ville,  Indiana,)  and  Miss  Eliza  Huber  took  charge  of  the 
Primary  Department.  Miss  Anne  Maria  Arnold  succeeded  Miss 
Smith  as  Teacher  of  Vocal  and  Instrumental  Music.  The  Fall  and 
Winter  session  opened  October  1, 1856.  The  school  was  not  wholly 
satisfactory  under  the  new  management.  Mr.  McFarland  re- 
signed at  the  end  of  the  first  term.  Messrs.  Jerome  and  Burroughs 
had  opened  a  book  store  in  Decatur,  111. ;  but  on  the  resignation  of 
Mr.  McFarland,  Mr.  Jerome  yielded  to  the  earnest  solicitation 
of  the  trustees  and  patrons  to  resume  the  Principalship,  and 
Mr.  Douthit  was  induced  again  to  take  charge  of  the  Preparatory 
Department,  while  Mr.  Mace  remained  teacher  of  Mathematics 
and  Natural  Science  and  Miss  Huber  teacher  in  Primary  De- 
partment; and  thus  was  completed  the  third  year's  good  work. 

The  closing  exercises  for  the  year  began  on  Sunday  mor- 
ning, July  19th,  1857,  with  a  sermon,  "highly  apropos  to  the  oc- 
casion" and  "delivered  in  a  masterly  manner,"  by  Rev.  J.  L. 
Crane.  The  examinations  were  held  during  Tuesday  and 
Wednesday,  July  20th  and  21st.  Tuesday  evening  was  taken 
up  with  an  address  to  the  Platonian  Literary  Society  by  Rev. 
H.  Sears,  A.  M.,  of  McKendree  College,  Lebanon,  Illinois. 
Wednesday  evening  was  occupied  with  a  sociable  for  students 
and  patrons,  and  of  course  was  very  enjoyable;  it  could  never  be 
otherwise  with  Mr.  Jerome  present. 

Mr.  Crane,  then  stationed  at  Paris,  Illinois,  writes  a  charac- 
teristically spicy  letter  to  the  Central  Clirixfian  Advocate  in  re- 


19  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAJL. 

gard  to  the  Seminary  at  that  time.  He  describes  the  building 
and  compliments  the  teachers,  Jerome,  Mace  and  Douthit.  He 
makes  a  good  natured  hit  at  "stingy  old  fogies"  and  "sore  headed 
croakers."  Then  he  refers  to  the  Shelby ville  Seminary  and  the 
educational  interests  of  the  Methodist  Church  in  a  manner  so 
wise  and  suggestive  that  it  deserves  preservation,  not  only  as  a 
memento  of  Old  Seminary  days,  but  as  the  words  of  a  noble  man 
who  was  Chaplain  to  General  Grant's  first  regiment,  and  who, 
being  dead,  yet  speaks  good  advice  to  the  thousands  who  loved 
him  dearly  as  pastor,  friend  and  brother.  Mr.  Crane  wrote: — 

Shelby  ville  Seminary  is  the  only  Seminary  under  the  patronage  of  the 
M.  E.  Church  that  can  accommodate  the  friends  of  education  especially  in 
our  branch  of  the  church,  in  Shelby  county,  Moultrie,  and  part  of  Christian 
counties.  We  hope  therefore  that  our  brethren  on  Sullivan,  Williamsburgh 
and  Shelbvville  circuits,  will  regard  it  as  their  institution,  rally  around  it, 
send  into  its  halls,  their  sons  and  daughters,  talk  of  its  progress  by  the  way 
and  at  the  fire-side,  recommend  it  to  their  neighbors,  remember  it  in  their 
prayers,  and  when  necessity  demands,  give  money  liberally  to  advance  its 
enterprises. 

If  the  Methodist  Church  sleeps  over  her  educational  interests,  the  devil 
will  wake  up  his  agents  and  the  field  will  be  taken  from  us,  or  other  sister 
denominations  will  cultivate  our  ground,  and  reap  the  reAvard  of  labor,  we 
should  have  performed,  and  wear  our  crown  in  the  end.  And  we  as  a  de- 
nomination, go  into  a  dishonorable  decline,  and  suffer  the  curse  of  the 
Almighty. 

It  is  not  the  design  of  the  trustees  of  Shelby  ville  Seminary,  to  attempt 
to  make  of  their  institution  anything  more  than  a  good  high  school  or  semi- 
nary. We  have  colleges  enough,  and  God  forbid  that  any  more  of  our  good, 
seminaries  should  spoil  themselves,  by  aspiring  to  a  college  character. 

There  is  not  a  single  college  now  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  that  deserves 
to  be  called  anything  higher  than  a  good  Seminary.  And  if  every  locality 
that  can  build  a  brick  house  and  raise  $10,000  or  $20,000  endowment,  and 
buy  a  musty  four  foot  telescope,  and  scrape  together  a  few  crooked  rocks 
and  petrified  snakes  is  to  run  up  for  a  college,  humbug  will  be  Avritten  on  all 
our  banners,  and  we  will  become  in  this  matter,  at  least,  the  scorn  of  fools 
and  the  reproach  of  the  wise. 

Char  General  Conference,  to  prevent  this  course  of  things  in  the  M.  E. 
Church,  has  passed  an  order  that  no  college  shall  hereafter  be  admitted  to 
the  patronage  of  any  of  our  Annual  Conferences,  unless  she  has  an  endow- 
ment of  least  $100,000.  Some  say  that  this  is  only  advisory.  If  it  be  so,  it 
is  good  advice  and  from  a  good  quarter,  and  if  not  heeded  by  us,  we  will  in 
no  distant  day  suffer  as  great  a  penalty  as  i?  it  were  the  law  of  heaven. 

J.  L.  CRANE. 

Paris,  III,  July  22,  1857. 


SAM'L  W.  MOULTON. 


BHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL,  20 

The  enrollment  for  the  year  reached  237,  of  whom  70  were 
In  the  higher  classes.  We  take  these  figures  from  the  "Second 
Annual  Catalogue  of  Shelby  Male  and  Female  Seminary,  Shelby- 
ville,  Illinois,  for  the  year  ending  July  22,  1857." 

FOURTH   ACADEMICAL   YEAR,  1857-8. 

The  following  year  the  school  opened  October  1,  1857  with 
its  usual  prospects  and  attendance,  Rev.  W.  H.  Webster  taking 
the  place  of  Mr  .  Mace  resigned.  Mr.  Douthit  and  Miss  Huber 
also  resigned.  Miss  E.  A.  Morrison,  of  Delaware,  O.,was  employed 
as  Teacher  of  Instrumental  Music,  and  Miss  Ann  E.  Ehoads  as 
Teacher  in  the  Preparatory  Department  with  Miss  Minnie  Gra- 
ham and  Jacob  Miller  as  Assistant  Pupils.  The  semi-annual  exer- 
cises occurred  in  February  1858,  the  two  exhibitions  being  held 
on  Wednesday  and  Thursday  evenings  February  17,  and  18,  1858. 
On  two  dim  sheets  carefully  preserved  by  the  Principal  are 
the  programs  of  these  exhibitions  which  we  copy  entire  (not 
fac-simile,  the  sheets  on  which  they  are  printed  being  too 
large  for  our  pages)  as  follows: 

SHELBY  SEMINARY  EXHIBITION. 
WEDNESDAY  EVENING,  FEBRUARY  17,  185& 

ORDEB  OF  EXERCISES: 

PRAYER  ..................................................................  Rev.  J,  S.  Barger. 

MUSIC. 
LITERARY  ADDRESS  ......................  by  ........................  Hon.  S.  W.  Moulton. 

MUSIC. 
I)Fr  T,  AM  ATIONS—  ^  "Liber*y  is  Order,"  ..............................  Charles  C  .  Tickner. 

)  "A  Highflown  Description  of  Man,"  ...............  Amos  A,  Rhodes. 

MUSIC. 
VaqA  Yq       5  "Advantages  of  Education,"  ..........................  (  Mies  Ella  M.  Headen. 

l"A  Colloquy,"  ........................................  I  Miss  Adelia  A.  Moore. 

MUSIC. 
TYRPT.AM  ATTON8—  ^  "Character,"  ....................................  Albert  R.  Thornton. 

1     }  "Early  Rising,"  ......................................  Byron  P.  Baker. 

MUSIC. 

MONEY  MAKES  THE  MARE  GO,  ............  (  John  Ward. 

A  HW«pnMHi?  •<  Oscar  E.  Pen  well. 

A  RESPONSE  ............................................................  ?  Charles  P.  Lante. 

MUSIC. 

DECLAMATIONS—  ^  I'.??16  ^mef,of  Galileo,"  .......................  William  T  .  Campbell. 

'     I  "Hezekiar  Stebbins  of  Pine  Holler,"  .........  Charles  S.  Woodward. 

MUSIC. 
ESSAYS  J  "T!1,6.  Use8  9f  Adversity,"  ...............................  »  .  .  Miss  Victoria  Cutler. 

0  I  "All  is  not  Gold  that  Glitters,"  .........................  Miss  Margery  A.  Oliver. 

MUSIC.  , 


DECLAMATIONS  \  I'SJ^I1^  R*  Human  Nature,"  ...................  Charles  D.  Horseman. 

"D  \  "Dick  Dilley's  Stump  Speech,"  ..................  Jonathan  N.  Penwell. 

MUSIC. 

ORIGINAL  ORATIONS-  j  "I1}6  5?^*  ^e8(""  ........................  William  Freshwater. 

(    JUiucation,    ......................................  Nelson  Neil. 

MUSIC.  BENEDICTION. 


21       .  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL* 

SHELBY  SEMINARY  EXHIBITION- 


THURSDAY  EVENING,  FEBRUARY  18r  1858.. 

ORDER  OF  EXERCISES: 

PRAYER Rey.    James  Wilson.. 

MUSIC. 
LITERARY  ADDRESS by Hon.  A.  Thornton 

MUSIC^ 

r\vn  AMAT10KS     ^"Modern  Republics," ff William    J.  Carnahan.. 

DECLAMAIlUJNb-  ^  »Smith<8  golioquy  on  Matrimony r" Joseph  Oliver, 

MUSIC. 

c-aa  A  va       5  "Beauties  of  Nature," Miss  Pedie  P.  Parrish. 

~  1  "Act  Well  Yoar  Part," Miss  Nannie  F.  Wren, 

MUSIC. 

Turn  AMiTTnvQ     5  "Downfall  of  Poland," Robert  N.  Barger.. 

DECLAMATIONS- j  "The  Whiskers," Joeebh  H.Devlin. 

MUSIC. 

i?aa  A  vu    ^  "Sunbeams  and  Shadows," Miss  Fannie  H .  Travis. 

«»"  }  "Flowers," Miss  lone  Gregory. 

MUSIC. 

•iwfr'  i  A  M  A  T<Tn-wa     J  "Dr.  Puff  Stuff,  on  Patent  Medicines," Henry  C.  Parrish . 

*~  }  "Timothy  Dobbins  on  Phrenology," Anson  A.  Oliver, 

MUSIC. 

"Ealogy  on  LiFayette,"' Harvey  M.Travis. 

.VA  Harp  Qf  a  Thousaad  strings," Ephraim  A.    McCracken. 

MUSIC. 

^  "The  Mysteries  of  the  Human  Heart," Miss  Minnie  Graham. 

-      "Gratitude,". Miss  Sina  Cutler. 

MUSIC. 

5  "A  Hundred  Years  Ago," William  H.  Waggoner. 

-  ^  "De8tiny  of  the  American  Nation Jacob  C .  Miller. 

MUSIC.  BENEDICTION. 

Mr.  Dudley  C.  Smith  gave  to  one  of  the  local  papers  a  pleas- 
ing leport  of  these  exercises.  From  this  report  we  copy  the 
following: — 

On  Thursday  evening  the  room  was  completely  crowded,  rammed,  jammed 
crammed  and  squeezed,  to  the  number  of  six  or  seven  hundred — plus — don't 
know  how  many!  We  never  saw  so  many  persons  in  so  small  a  space.  *  * 

The  young  ladies'  essays  were  all  very  good,  indeed.  *  *  Some 
of  them,  however,  read  hardly  loud  enough.  Good  reading  adds  more  credit 
to  an  essay  than  anything  else.  Were  we  to  judge  from  hand  clapping,  'Act 
Well  Your  Part,'  by  Miss  Nannie  Wren,  excelled;  but  that  is  not  always  a 
correct  guide.  'Flowers,'  by  Miss  lone  Gregory,  deserves  credit  for  the  dis- 
tinct tone  in  which  it  was  read,  if  nothing  more.  'The  Mysteries  of  the 
Human  Heart,'  by  Miss  Minnie  Graham  was  excellent.  Among  the  boys 
that  evinced  considerable  oratorical  talent  we  might  mention  Joseph  Oliver, 
Robert  Barger,  Harvey  Travis  and  Ephraim  McCracken.  *  *  * 

On  "Friday  evening  Feb.  19,  1858,"  as  the  program  reads, 
the  music  class  gave  a  concert  of  vocal  and  instrumental  music. 
Admission  25  cents;  pupils  and  children  under  12  years  of  age 
ten  cents;  money  obtained  to  be  expended  in  repairing  Semi- 
nary; and  aid  in  building  a  fence.  Among  those  who  contrib- 
uted voice  and  talent  to  this  concert  were  Mr.  J  erorne,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Koundy  and  Miss  Morrison.  The  Shelbyville  Band 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  22 

•-also  aided.  The  concert  was  a  success,  financially  and  other- 
-wise.  In  a  liberal  notice  of  this  concert  the  Shelby  Freeman, 
edited  by  Mr.  E.  H.  Chittenden,  incidentally  remarks  that 
•"Through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  J.  A.  Roundy  the  pupils  at  the  Semi- 
nary will  receive  instruction  in  vocal  music  free  of  charge."  Ac- 
cordingly, for  the  next  term,  Mr.  Rouiidy,  then  one  of  our  leading 
merchants,  generously  took  time  from  his  business  to  give  the 
students  valuable  lessons  in  vocal  music. 

The  Spring  session  began  March  3,  1858,  and  closed  July 
22,  1858.  The  Music  Class  gave  a  concert  of  vocal  and  in- 
strumental music  on  Friday  evening,  June  18,  1858.  The  Third 
Annual  Catalogue  "for  the  year  ending  July  22,  1858,'  gives  the 
number  of  pupils  as  277  of  whom  90  were  in  the  higher  classes. 
This  was  an  increase  over  former  years  of  forty  pupils. 

During  the  summer  vacation  of  this  year  (1858)  Mr. 
Jerome  and  Miss  Morrison  were  married.  This  lady  continued 
as  Teacher  of  Instrumental  Music  until  the  final  close  of  the  in- 
stitution in  1859. 

FIFTH   ACADEMICAL    YEAR,   1858-9. 

With  the  opening  for  the  next  year,  the  fall  of  1858,  sonie 
radical  changes  were  made  in  the  management  of  the  institution, 
one  of  which  was  the  establishment  of  Young  Ladies'  Department 
under  the  control  of  a  Preceptress,  who  should  also  have  charge 
of  the  Mathematical  Department.  This  was  an  experiment,  and 
it  is  said  to  have  caused  some,  who  were  accustomed  to  the  old 
order  of  things,  grave  doubts  as  to  the  result.  A  lady  to  teach 
mathematics  !  and  to  be  in  a  degree  responsible  for  the  govern- 
ment in  a  department  of  higher  grade  !  If,  however,  it  required 
any  extra  nerve  on  the  part  of  the  Principal,  he  had  it  in  reserve, 
and  Miss  Maggie  E.  Osband,  who  was  called  to  the  position 
of  Preceptress,  discharged  the  duties  incumbent  upon  her  with 
such  fidelity  and  ability,  that  the  misgivings  were  speedily  put 
at  rest. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  semi-annual  exercises,  we  find  two 
programs;  one  of  these  is  dated  thus:  "Wednesday  Evening, 


23  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL, 

Feb.  15,  1859",  ami  the  other  thus:  "Thursday  Evening,  Feb.  17, 
1859",  (One  of  these  dates  of  course  is  incorrect. )  On  the 
first  evening,  according  to  program,  Rev.  James  Wilson  gave 
the  opening  prayer,  and  Henry  C.  Parish  gave  the  "Salutatory." 
Others  on  this  evening's  program  were  :  Oration,  by  Parkhurst 
T.  Martin;  Dialogue,  "The  Lawyer  and  the  Irishman,"  by 
Charles  P.  Lantz  and  Edward  Harris;  Essays  by  Misses 
Annie  Kellar  and  Lizzie  Hart;  Declamations  by  George  R. 
Weudling  and  William  S.  Prentice  ;  Colloquy,  "Value  of 
Knowledge,"  by  Five  Young  Ladies;  Essays  by  Misses  Adelia 
Moore  and  Hattie  Chew;  Dialogue  by  David  M.  Harney  and 
Anson  E.  Oliver  and  orations  by  Simon  P.  Hoy,  and  William 
E.  Killam.  On  the  second  evening's  program  Rev.  Bardrick  is 
printed  as  opening  the  exercises  with  prayer.  Then  followed 
declamations  by  Merton  G.  Baker  and  John  Ward;  Oration  by 
Amos  A.  Rhodes;  Colloquy  by  six  young  ladies;  Declamation  by 
Joseph  E.  Rogers  and  Jacob  Gehm ;  Essays  by  Misses  Mattie 
B.  Smith  and  Margery  A.  Oliver;  Declamations  by  Charles  C. 
Tickner  and  Ephraim  A.  McCrackeu;  Dialogue  by  Fred  P. 
Harding  and  Joseph  H.  Devlin;  Oration  by  John  W.  Woolen 
and  Daniel  B.  Smith;  Essay  with  Valedictory  by  Miss  lone 
Gregory.  The  exercises  throughout  as  on  all  similar  occasions 
were  pleasantly  interspersed  with  music. 

Of  the  participants  in  the  above  programs,  some  have  passed 
away  from  earth,  others  are  scattered  abroad,  and  the  following 
remain  in  this  city  and  county  to  this  day,  namely :  Henry  C. 
Parish,  Charles  P.  Lantz,  George  R.  Wendling,  Win.  E.  Killam, 
Ephraim  A.  McCrackeu  and  Misses  lone  Gregory  and  Margery 
A.  Oliver. 

No  record  found  of  the  close  of  the  summer  session  of 
1859  excepting  the  catalogue  or  "Annual  Register." 

The  Board  of  Instruction  in  the  Annual  Register  for  the 
year  ending  July  20th,  1859,  were  as  follows,  namely:  Charles 
W.  Jerome,  A.  M.,  Principal,  and  Teacher  of  Mental  and  Moral 
Philosophy  and  Languages ;  Miss  Maggie  E.  Osband,  Pre- 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  24 

ceptress,  and  Teacher  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Science; 
Mrs.  Eugenia  A.  Jerome,  Teacher  of  Vocal  and  Instrumental 
Music;  Miss  Belle  E.  McGinnis,  Teacher  in  Preparatory  De- 
partment. Total  number  of  students  attending  during  this  year 
was  two  hundred  and  thirty,  of  whom  thirty-one  were  in  the 
Scientific  and  Classical  Department. 

SIXTH    ACADEMICAL  YEAR,1859-60. 

The  Fall  and  Winter  session  opened  October  3,  1859.  Mif  s 
Maggie  E.  Osband  continued  Preceptress  and  Miss  Mary 
J.  Osband  took  charge  of  the  Primary  Department.  In  May 
1860,  Miss  Maggie  E.  Osbaud  returned  East,  in  consequence  of 
the  illness  of  her  mother,  and  her  sister,  Miss  Mary  J.,  succeed- 
ed to  the  duties  of  Preceptress  in  full,  while  Mr.  P.  T.  Martin 
was  Teacher  of  the  Primary  Depat  tment  for  the  remainder  of 
that  year.  AVe  can  find  no  further  record  of  this  year. 

SEVENTH*  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1860-1. 

The  first  session  for  this  year  opened  September  12th, 
Miss  Osband  and  Mr.  Martin  had  resigned  in  July  previous. 
Miss  Ada  Ward,  of  Evanston,  111.,  acted  as  preceptress  from  the 
opening  of  the  school  in  September,  1860,  till  the  close  in  July, 
1861. 

From  an  advertising  circular,  printed  in  August  1860,  head- 
ed "Shelby  Seminary"  and  signed  "Chas.  W.  Jerome,"  we  infer 
that  the  Primary  Department  had  been  discontinued,  so  that  the 
number  in  attendance  was  considerably  reduced.  We  copy  a 
part  of  the  circular  referred  to,  as  follows: — 
SHELBY  SEMINARY. 


The  Fall  and  Winter  Term  will  open  on  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  12th,  and  will 
continue  Twenty  weeks.  Spring  and  Summer  Term  opens  WEDNESDAY,  the  14th  of 
FEBRUARY,  1861. 

ZEIXIIFIEIDTSIES. 

Rates  of  Tuition  per  Term  of  Twenty  weeks,  payable  at  the  middle  of  the  Session: 
Academical,        -------       $  i>..Vi 

Scientific, -  -    10.00 

Classical, 12.00 

Music,  on  the  Piano,  Melodeon,  or  Guitar,  including  use  of 

Instrument*,  extra,    ------    15.00 

Drawing  and  Painting,  extra. 

Incidental  charges,  per  Scholar,     -  ...  .'25 

Vocal  Music.          -------    Free 


25  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

Candidates  for  admission  must  be  qualified  to  enter  the  large  Arithmetic,  Grammar 
and  Geography.  Exercises  in  Reading,  Orthography,  Declamation  and  Composition,  will 
be  kept  np  during  the  Session.  The  number  of  pupils  is  limited  to  eighty.  Parents  wish- 
ing to  send,  will  please  notify  us,  that  seats  may  be  reserved;  otherwise  they  may  not  pro- 
cure them. 

The  services  of  a  competent  Preceptress,  Miss  ADA  WARD,  of  Evanston,  Illinois,  have 
been  secured  for  the  coming  year. 

On  Monday  evening  Dec.  31,  1860,  a  grand  Vocal  and 
Instrumental  Concert  was  given  at  the  Seminary  by  Mrs.  E. 
A.  Jerome  and  pupils,  assisted  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Bouudy, 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Chabin,  Mr.  E.  H.  Cook  and  Fred  P.  Harding.  On 
this  occasion  the  Cantata  of  the  Flower  Queen,  by  Geo.  F.  Root, 
was  performed.  From  the  elaborate  and  interesting  program, 
printed  at  the  Shelby  Freeman  office,  we  copy  the  following 

PERSONATIONS: 

QUEEN— THE  BOSK EVA  JOHNSON. 

Recluse Carlie  Sears. 

Sun-Flower Dora  Canon. 

Crocus Margie  Oliver. 

Dahlia Adelia  Moore. 

Lily Ella  Headen. 

Japonica , Mattie  Roberts. 

Violet : Mary  Cutler. 

Dandelion, Mattie  Graham. 

Heliotrope Anna  Headen. 

Mignionette Nannie  Headen. 

Touch-Me-Not Antonia  Wendling. 

Hollyhock Belle  Woodward. 

f    Mary  Roberts. 

Pnnnioe  Hattie  Cutler.        TTQ  .,  „_ .    llc    $          i>o\o  Dexter. 

Poppies,  ~H    Lizzie  Tackett>       Heather-bells,  }  Le8tie  Van  Dyke. 

L    Rella  Gregory. 

The  object  of  this  concert  was  to  obtain  money  to  be  ex- 
pended in  building  a  new  fence  around  the  Seminary  grounds, 
making  a  walk  and  repairing  the  chimneys.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jerome  were  the  moving  spirits  in  this  as  in  all  similar  enter- 
prises. It  was  a  very  successful  and  memorable  concert,  exceed- 
ing the  expectations  of  the  most  sanguine;  the  only  regret  being 
that  a  larger  room  could  not  have  been  obtained  to  accommo- 
date the  many  who  were  unable  to  gain  admittance.  Tickets  to 
this  concert  were  25  cents;  children  15  cents.  The  amount  re- 
quired to  pay  for  the  improvements  would  have  been  secured  if 
all  who  came  could  have  gained  admission.  Every  one  who 
witnessed  the  concert  was  charmed;  and  we  venture  the  state- 
ment, that  the  Principal  pushed  forward  the  needed  improve- 


SHELBY VILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  26 

raents  and  saw  them  paid  for.  That  way  always  his  habit;  and 
all  the  more  so  when  the  energy  of  a  faithful  helpmeet  was  add- 
ed to  his  own. 

The  Semi-Annual  Exhibition  for  this  year  occurred  on 
Wednesday  evening,  February  6,  1861.  The  following  is  a  copy 
of  the  program  on  that  occasion:— 

SHELBY  SEMINARY  EXHIBITION. 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES: 
PRAYER. 
MUSIC, 

LITERARY  ADDRESS by A.  T.  Hall,  Esq. 

MUSIC. 

JOHN  LITTLE  JOHN John  D.  Bruster. 

A  TEMPERANCE  SPEECH John  J.  Kellar. 

MUSIC. 

AN  ADDRESS  TO  THE  ECHO George  Copeland. 

STARS  THAT  NEVER  SET Susan  Penwell. 

MUSIC. 
GENTLEMAN  AND  IRISH  SERVANT. 

IRISHMAN John  B.  Harris. 

GENTLEMAN William  R.  Austin. 

INDEPENDENCE Edgar  Leach. 

MUSIC. 

DUTY  OF  LITERARY  MEN  TO  THEIR  COUNTRY.. Merton  G.  Baker. 

SPECTACLES Mattie  A.  Graham. 

MUSIC. 

THE  UNION ; George  A.  Livers. 

FIRESIDE  PLEASURES Adelia  A.  Moore. 

MUSIC. 

THE  AUCTION: 
Characters:  Auctioneer,  G.  V.  Penwell.    By-standers,  Bidders,  &c. 

THE  SHADOWS  WE  CAST Fidelia  McClintock. 

MUSIC. 

MARCH  OF  MIND...  , Charles  J.  Dexter. 

CONNUBIAL  CONFAB    Mr.  and  Mrs .  Tinder. 

MUSIC. 
THE  RIVAL  SPEAKERS: 

TOMMY  TEOTTEB Mark  M.  Poteet. 

SAMMY  SLY Eddie  T.  Schenck. 

ROBERT  EMMET'S  VINDICATION Eugene  McClintock. 

MUSIC. 

KNOWLEDGE  IS  POWER.     .  Frank  W.  Penwell. 

CLOUDS  WITH  SILVERY  LININGS,  with  the  Valedictory Carlie  Sears. 

MUSIC. 

BENEDICTION. 

THE  NEXT  TERM 

Opens  next  Wednesday,  February  13th,  and  continues  Twenty  Weeks. 

From  a  notice  in  the  Shelby  Freeman,  of  the  above  exercises, 
we  copy  the  following: — 

The  exercises  were  very  creditable  indeed,  both  to  pupils  and  teachers 
and  posessed  two  commendable  characteristics  in  particular — variety  and 


27  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

brevity ....  After  the  intermission,  "Dixie"  being  called  for,  Fred  P.  Harding 
sang  it  most  beautifully. 

But  the  treat  of  the  evening — without  wishing  to  make  any  invidious 
comparisons— was  the  literary  feast  furnished  by  A.  T.  Hall,  Esq.,  in  his 
address  on  "The  Bible  a  School-book." 

We  find  nothing  in  regard  to  close  of  summer  term,  which 
was  probably  in  July  as  usual. 

EIGHTH   ACADEMICAL   YEAR,  1861-2. 

The  first  term  of  this  year  opened  Wednesday,  September 
11,  1861.  Miss  Ellen  Hall  and  Miss  Mattie  B.  Smith  were  the 
new  teachers  for  this  year.  At  the  close  of  the  winter  term  the 
ensuing  February,  there  were  no  evening  exhibitions.  The 
closing  exercises  consisted  of  examinations  in  the  various 
studies,  interspersed  with  music,  the  reading  of  compositions 
by  the  girls  and  young  women  and  declamations  by  the  boys. 
Part  of  the  music  was  furnished  by  a  class  which  had  been 
under  the  able  instruction  of  Mr.  Roundy.  A  communication 
to  one  of  the  local  papers,  written  by  one  present,  mentions  a 
composition  read  by  Miss  Lizzie  Tackett,  "which,  considering 
her  age,  reflected  great  credit  upon  the  writer."  "An  original 
colloquy,"  says  the  same  writer,  "by  Misses  Eva  Johnson  and 
Mattie  Graham  attracted  much  attention  by  its  instructiveness 
and  fine  showing  of  the  ludicrous."  Prizes  were  given  to  the 
most  successful  spellers,  the  first  prize  being  Webster's  Un- 
abridged Dictionary,  which  was  awarded  to  "Master  George 
Roberts." 

The  spring  and  summer  term  opened  Wednesday,  the  12th 
of  February,  1862,  and  closed  the  July  following  with  two  days 
examinations.  In  a  communication  to  the  Okaw  Democrat  signed 
"W.  R.  R,"  (which  initials  we  take  to  be  those  of  William  R. 
Read,  a  Shelby ville  lawyer  who  has  since  passed  away),  we 
learn  that  the  closing  exercises  were  'conducted  as  on  the  year 
previous.  The  first  morning  (Thursday)  opened  with  singing; 
followed  with  prayer  by  Rev.  R.  Holding.  Horace  Prince, 
Walter  Headen,  William  Nichols,  and  Mertou  G.  Baker  de- 
claimed; George  Harkey  and  Eddie  Wade  spoke  a  dialogue; 
Mary  Roberts,  Jennie  Babbit,  Ellen  M.  Burr,  Anna  Swallow, 


GEORGE    WEXDLING. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  28 

Hattle  Cutler,  and  Anna  Headen  read  compositions.  At  the 
close  of  the  afternoon's  exercises,  on  Thursday,  George  D. 
Chafee  gave  an  address  on  "Indolence",  and  at  the  close  on 
Friday  afternoon,  Win.  B.  Bead  gave  an  address  on  "Books  and 
Beading." 

This  ended  the  Eighth  Academical  Year  of  the  school,  first 
called  Shelby  Academy,  but  afterward  and  to  this  day,  known  as 
Shelby  Seminary.  Since  the  day  it  opened  in  the  old  Meth- 
odist, church  in  March,  1854,  being  about  eight  years  and 
six  months,  it  had  steadily  prospered  and  shed  benign  in- 
fluences in  the  region  round  about.  We  regret  that  meagre 
data  prevents  us,  at  this  writing,  from  giving  a  more  complete 
history;  but  of  one  thing  we  are  sure,  it  had  elevated  the  standard 
of  education,  and  perceptibly  improved  the  morals  of  the  com- 
munity. Although  the  Principal  and  his  Assistants  had  been 
compelled  to  contend  against  old-fogyism,  prejudice  and  vice, 
they  had  overcome  all  obstacles,  and  had  made  its  genial  influ- 
ence widely  felt.  Its  reputation  was  not  simply  local,  but 
brought  many  students  from  a  considerable  distance. 

Now,  for  a  second  time  (1862),  Mr.  Jerome  resigned, — 
this  time  to  enter  the  army  of  the  Union,  where  he  served  as 
First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  of  115th  Begiment  of 
Illinois  Volunteers  until  June,  1865. 

[We  have,  as  yet,  failed  to  get  any  record  of  the  school, 
whatever,  during  Mr.  Jerome's  absence,  although  we  hope 
to  be  able  to  give  in  succeeding  pages  of  this  memorial  more  of 
an  account  of  the  Seminary  during  that  period.  Suffice  it  to 
say  now,  that,  as  well  as  we  can  ascertain,  the  school  was  under 
the  control  of  Mr.  Thomas  Easterday,  for  the  first  year,  Mr. 
James  H.  Hess,  for  the  second  year,  Mr.  D.  W.  Jacoby  for  the 
first  term  of  the  third  year  and  Bev.  G.  A.  Pollock  for  the.  last 
half  of  the  third  year.  Miss  Kate  P.  Smith  taught  in  the  school 
during  Bev.  Pollock's  administration.  Miss  Ella  Faut  and, 
probably,  Miss  Fidelia  McChntock,  and  others,  were  also  teachers 
for  some  of  the  time  during  those  three  years.] 


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SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


TWELFTH  ACADEMICAL    YEAR,  1865-6. 

On  the  return  of  Prof.  Jerome  from  the  army  in  1865,  he 
was  promptly  re-elected  to  the  Principalship  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  continued  at  the  head  of  the  school  until  its  close. 
Mr.  P.  T.  Martin,  afterwards  editor  of  the  Union,  was  chosen 
Preceptor,  and  Miss  lone  S.  Daniels  was  placed  in  charge  of 
the  Preparatory  classes.  Mrs.  Jerome,  who  had  during  the 
years  of  her  husband's  absence  acted  as  Preceptress  as  well 
as  Music  Teacher,  now  continued  as  Teacher  of  Vocal  and 
Instrumental  Music.  The  Fall  and  Winter  Session  probably 
began  in  September  1865  and  closed  with  the  usual  exercises  of 
an  exhibition  "Wednesday  evening  February  7,  1866.  The  pro- 
gram for  that  evening  was  as  follows: — 

SHELBY  SEMINARY   EXHIBITION. 
WEDNESDAY  EVE.,  FEB.  7th,  1866. 


ORDEB  OF  EXERCISES. 

PRAYER.  MUSIC. 

Value  of  Time  and  Knowledge, 
Early  Rising,  - 

MUSIC. 

The  Heroic  Dead, 
"'Cicero  in  Catalinam." 

MUSIC. 
Formation  of  Character,     - 

^  Start  Fair,  or  Don't  be  too  Positive ! 

Dick,     ------ 

Tom, 
Jim, 
Harry, 

MUSIC. 
Memory, 

Why  Destroy  this  Government, 
Dissolve  the  Union?     - 

'    MUSIC. 

The  Celebrated  Lecturers. 
Timothy  Dobbins  on  Phrenology^    - 
Dr.  Puff  Snuff,  on  Patent  Medicines,     - 
1st  Constable,         ___.-_ 
2d  Constable, 
Jake, 


Man, 

Be  Happy, 

Our  Country,  Past  and  Present. 
"Des  Knabe  Lust," 

The  Truly  Beautiful,    - 

Tommy  Trotter, 

Sam  Sly, 

Nobility  of  Labor, 
Home, 


MUSIC. 
MUSIC. 

MUSIC. 
The  Rival  Speakers. 

MUSIC. 


R.  B.  Middleton. 
Edgar  Leach. 

F.  D.  Baker. 
C.  P.  Henry. 

J.  T.  Killam. 


A.  W.  Chabin. 
A.  D.  Guion. 
W.  C.  Headen. 
F.  M.  Finkbine. 


Maggie  Foreman. 

Perry  Williamson. 

Maria  Brant. 


C.  P.  Henry. 

C.  C.Murdock. 

H.  C.  Campbell. 

M.  J.  Verner. 

C.  E.  Hall. 


E.  J.  Travis. 
Ellen  Huber. 


-      E.  H.  Martin. 
.    -  Jacob  Hibbel. 

Fannie  Durban. 

C.  W.  Johnson. 
-   W.  C.  Headen. 

E.  A.  McCracken. 
Eliza  Brewster. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  30 

Connubial  Confab. 
Tom  Tinder,  -  -  -  -  W.  A.  Van  Dyke. 

Mrs.  Tom  Tinder,  -  -  Bella  Gregory. 

MUSIC. 

An  Appeal  for  the  Union,  -  -          E.  M.  Williams. 

Never,  -  -----     Nellie  Marks . 

MUSIC. 

BENEDICTION. 
^-°The  next  Term  opens  on  Wednesday,  Feb.  14th,  1868,  and  continues  twenty  weeks. 

The  Spring  and  Summer  term  closed  this  year,  instead  of 
in  July  as  usual,  in  June.  The  exhibition  was  on  the  evening 
of  Friday,  June  29, 1866.  The  following  students  participated  in 
the  exercises  whose  names  do  not  appear  on  the  program  of  the 
February  previous,  namely:  Ella  Hunt,  Cynthia  Pugh,  Mary 
E.  Lantz,  B.  S.  Brown,  Minerva  Corley,  Phenia  Graham,  Josie 
H.  West,  Nannie  Pugh  and  Belle  Park. 

The  attendance  now  was  not  so  great  as  in  previous  years, 
partly  on  account  of  the  increased  efficiency  of  the  system  of 
public  schools  that  had  been  established  in  the  city,  and  partly 
on  account  of  the  opening  of  Okaw  Seminary,  under  the  patron- 
age of  some  of  the  former  friends  of  the  older  institution.  Rev. 
G.  A.  Pollock,  of  Kentucky,  had  been  called  to  the  Principalship 
of  the  old  Seminary  and  had  acceptably  filled  that  position  during 
the  year  previous  to  Mr.  Jerome's  return.  Mr.  Pollock  was  a 
gentleman  of  excellent  character  and  much  respected  in  the  com- 
munity. He  was  elected  to  take  charge  of  the  new  institution, 
called  Okaw  Seminary.  Miss  Kate  H.  Smith,  a  young  woman  of 
superior  gifts  and  attainments  and  highly  esteemed  as  a 
teacher,  who  had  been  associated  with  Mr.  Pollock  in  the  Shelby 
Seminary,  was  employed  to  assist  in  the  new  Seminary ;  and  of 
course  this  school  drew  considerable  patronage,  as  it  deserved. 
Nevertheless,  in  the  character  of  its  work,  the  Shelby  Seminary 
continued  the  high  standard  exhibited  in  its  earlier  years,  and, 
with  hosts  of  friends,  it  went  on  in  the  glorious  labor  which  it 
seemed  peculiarly  fitted  to  perform. 

THIETEENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,   1866-7. 

This  year  opened  September  12th,  1866.  Miss  Anna  Headen 
succeeded  Miss  Daniels  in  the  Preparatory  Department.  The 
other  teachers  continued  as  in  the  year  previous  until  the  end  of 


31  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

the  winter  term  when  Mr.  Martin  resigned  and  Miss  Mattie  Gr. 
Kerr  succeeded  him. 

The  usual  exhibition  at  the  close  of  the  winter  term  occurred 
Wednesday  evening,  February  13th,  1867.  Rev.  Mr.  McElroy 
opened  with  prayer.  Among  those  who  took  part  in  the  exer- 
cises were  W.  H.  Brownbaek,  who  declaimed  on  "The  Wonders 
of  Nature";  E.  Leach,  F.  M.  Finkbine  and  T.  C.  Lloyd  gave  a 
dialogue  about  "The  Teacher  in  Trouble";  d  8.  Milliken  de- 
claimed on  "Education";  twenty-three  little  girls  and  boys  per- 
formed a  "Medley" ;  Minerva  Gollagher  read  an  essay  on  "Hap- 
piness"; J.  D.  Bruster  declaimed  "Pyramus  and  Thisbe";  C.  W. 
Johnson,  W.  H.  Walker,  W.  D.  Roberts,  W.  A.  Williams,  L.  S. 
Woodward,  C.  F.  Shuman  and  O.  P.  McDowel  had  a  dialogue 
on  "April-Fooling  the  'Skule  Master' " ;  and  W.  C.  Headen 
"created  considerable  sensation,"  so  W.  J.  Henry  said,in  a  report 
of  the  exercises  to  the  press,  "by  the  oratorical  success  with 
which  he  declaimed  'The  Heroine  of  Frederick.'  " 

In  a  newspaper  article  noticing  these  closing  exercises,  it 
is  said,  that  "while  C.  W.  Jerome  has  carried  on  the  Shelby ville 
Seminary  for  many  years  and  while  it  has  never  been  very  lucra- 
tive to  him,  so  far  as  dollars  and  cents  are  concerned,  yet  it  has 
always  been  very  satisfactory  to  patrons."  "Shelbyville  Semi- 
nary," says  the  writer  of  said  article,  "is  noted  for  one  thing  more 
than  perhaps  all  others,  and  that  is  the  moral  influence  which  it 
exerts,  not  only  over  the  students  but  also  over  the  community. 
Students  here  received  a  moral  training  as  well  as  a  literary  one." 
This  was  a  true  testimony  to  which  we  think  all  who  knew  the 
school  would  agree. 

The  Spring  and  Summer  session  began  February  18,  1867, 
and  closed  with  an  exhibition  on  Tuesday  evening,  July  2,  1867. 
Edgar  Leach,  Charley  Kearney,  Minnie  Fouke,  Thirrissa  Travis, 
S.  H.  Huber,  T.  C.  Tyson,  F.  H.  Slocum,  Mattie  Gollagher  and 
C.  H.  Holding  were  among  those  whose  names  appear  on  the 
program  for  that  evening.  The  Shelby  Union,  P.  T.  Martin 
editor,  in  a  notice  of  the  exercises,  says:  '"Never  Despair,'  by 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  32 

Edgar  Leach,  was  a  fine  piece,  well  delivered."  A  similar  com- 
pliment is  given  to  Wm.  H.  Brownback's  "original  oration." 
Walter  C.  Headen  is  spoken  of  as  "a  perfect  little  oral  or"  "The 
house  resounded  with  applause"  when  Miss  Mattie  Gollagher 
recited  "The  American  Flag,"  and  the  whole  school  sang  most 
beautifully  "The  Flag  of  the  Free."  The  Union  concludes  that, 
"the  school  was  never  in  a  more  promising  condition  than  now." 

Mr.  G.  K.  Wendling,  in  noticing  this  exhibition  in  the  Shelby 
County  Times,  said:  "The  oration  of  Mr.  Callie  Holding  was 
the  best  performance  of  the  evening  in  that  line.  It  was  well 
written,  etc.  .  .  .  The  essay  of  Miss  Travis  was  a  very  able  pro- 
duction  The  best  declaimer  of  the  evening  was  Fred 

Slocum In  the  musical  performances  the  most  noted  feature 

was  the  singing  of  little  Miss  Ella  Cleihents."  Of  the  Princi- 
pal, Mr.  Wendling  writes:  "There  may  be  more  profound 
scholars  than  Mr.  Jerome;  but  we  question  if  there  be  anywhere 
in  the  West  a  man  of  more  power  of  discipline  or  a  better  edu- 
cator. He  is  one  of  the  very  best  teachers  in  the  state." 

In  February,  1867,  the  school  was  incorporated  under 
the  name  and  style  of  "Shelbyville  Seminary."  C.  C.  Scovil, 
C.  E.  Woodward,  W.  J.  Henry,  James  Durban,  and  S.  W.  Moulton 
constituting  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

FOURTEENTH  ACADEMICAL  YEAR,  1867-8. 

The  year  1867-8,  was  begun  September  llth,  with  Mr. 
James  M.  North  occupying  the  position  of  Preceptor,  and  Misses 
Annie  Headen  and  Martha  G.  Kerr  in  charge  of  the  Prepara- 
tory Departments  as  during  the  previous  session. 

We  find  no  account  of  the  closing  exercises  of  the  Winter 
term,  excepting  brief  reference  in  the  local  papers  to  the  sociable 
or  levee.  The  Union  refers  to  this  reunion  of  students  and 
friends  of  the  Seminary  in  Rouudy's  Hall  one  Monday  evening 
in  February  1868:  "The  frolic  of  the  children  and  the  social 
enjoyment  of  the  grown  persons  was  an  occasion  long  to  be  re- 
membered. The  Young  Men's  Prayer  Meeting  which  has 
been  held  in  connection  with  the  school,  during  the  past  session, 


33  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

in  view  of  Mr.  North's  departure,  made  him  a  present  of  a 
beautiful  Bible  as  a  testimony  of  their  regard."  Col.  Smith 
made  some  remarks  in  which  he  alluded  to  "his  last  summer's 
ascent  to  the  peak  of  Mt.  Shasta,  etc."  The  Central  Illinois 
Commercial,  edited  by  George  E.  Wendling,  speaks  of  this 
"Seminary  Sociable"  thus: 

The  students  of  Shelby  Seminary  gave  a  Cold  Water  Levee  on  the  eve- 
ning of  the  27th  ult.,  which  was  well  attended.  The  evening  was  passed  in 
promenading  and  conversation,  and  enlivened  by  excellent  music  by  the 
Seminary  music  class.  Several  prizes  for  excellence  in  in  orthography  and 
scholarship  were  distributed  —  George  W.  Douthit  receiving  first  prize  and 
Miss  Mary  McKinney  the  second. 

For  the  remainder  of  the  year  1868,  the  corps  of  instructors 
continued  the  same  as  the  first  term,  excepting  in  the  case  of  Mr. 
North,  resigned;  namely: — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jerome,  Miss  MattieG. 
Kerr  and  Miss  Anna  Headen. 

On  Thursday  and  Friday  afternoons,  of  June  18th  and  19th, 
1868  the  closing  exercises  occurred.  They  consisted  of  decla- 
mations, orations  and  essays,  interpersed  with  music.  We  find 
on  the  program,  in  two  parts,  one  for  each  afternoon,  the  names 
of  seventy  pupils,  older  or  younger;  but  mostly  younger,  we 
must  conclude.  This  was,  probably,  the  greatest  number  who 
spoke  their  "little  pieces"  at  ony  one  closing  exercise  in  the 
history  of  the  institution.  We  give  below  these  two  afternoon 
programs,  in  full: — 

Thursday  Afternoon,  June  18,  1869. 
America, Aetna  Francisco 


Disappointment Anna  West 

No  God, Emma  Lloyd 

Affection ...  ...  Lizzie  Francisco 


The  Wasted  Flowers,     John    Bell  The  Devoted, Belle  Pugh 

Fine  old  (  olored  Gentleman, .      .John  Fox  j  My  Grandfather's  old  Clock Eva  Lowe 

Hidden  Treasures £ra,nk    Jarnagan  Little  Kays  of  Light, Lillie  Cook 

The  Life  Clock Norton  Spurgeou  How  Goes  the  Money? Emma  Henry 

Profanity ...Edgar    Saylori Common  8en      Mmie  Purneli 

Ambition,  False  and  True, . .  .Duddie  Gregory  j  Fashion, Susan  Lowe 

A  Hunting   Excursion, -Milton  Ducker;The  Travels  of  a  Sunbeam Dora  Hall 

(jethseinane, Charley    Kellar  ^, 

O!  Tell  Her  How  I  Died! Jerome  Oliver  Friday  Afternoon,  June  19,  1869. 


Hetty    Me  Ewen, Locke  Pen  well 

The  Last  Day  of  School,. . .  Michael  Wend]  ing 

The    Little    Zouave, Eddy  Dilley 

An  Appeal  to  Arms Thomas  Tyson 

Supposed  Speech  of  John  Adams, 

William    Roberts 

Pleading  at  the  Bar, Eugene    Sumerlin 

LaFayette, Addison  Cook 

The  Present  Age, John  D.  Bruster 

Self  Made  Men.     (original  oration) 

.  Adolphus  Sumerliu 


Boy  and  Butterfly, Charles  Warriner 

Small  Service  is  True  Service,CharleyHaydon 

God  Made  all  Things, Willie  Brown 

Youth's  Bible  Hymn, Charles  Webster 

The  Two  Faced  Man, George  Buffer 


The  Maniac, Fred  H.  Slocum 

Birds, Mary   Baily 

Vacation,  —  Tillie  Livers- 


Verses  on  Clay, Wibbie  Cook 

How  Cyrus  Laid  the  Cable..  .Nim  Woodward 
Trust  in  God  and  do  the  Right!.  .Willie  Eddy 

Excelsior, Ernie  Steen 

Burning  of  the  Ocean  Queen, . .  Horace  Prince 

A  German  Speech, Julius  Roessler 

National  Anniversary, William  Miller 

Touch  Not,  Taste  Not,  Handle  Not 

. . .  .Philo  Fouke 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  S4 

Out  in  the  World, Letton  Woodward  Description  of  a  City Alice  Yost 

Sof orth,  and  So  on Thomas  Basye  The  Best  that  I  Can, Ella  Carroll 

National  Debt, Abel  Chabin  Human  Influence Lizzie  Corley 

Eulogy  on  Henry  Clay, Samuel  Huber  Labor, Mary  Day 

The  Fireman, Thomas  Hollo  way  Baskets, Mary  Hannaman 

Paul's  Defence  of  Christianity,  Vincent  Lowe  The  Apple  Tree, Hollie  Parker 

Liberty,  EssentiaHo  National  Prosperity,      ,Last  Day  of  School, Gnssie  Fouke 

(Original  oration) Wesley  Johnson  Beauty Eliza  Barrett 

American  Independence, Walter  1  leaden  Words Mary  Oliver 

The  Hum  Maniac, Alton  Guion  The  Soldier's  Death Clara  McKibben 

History  of  a  pair  of  Shoes, Mary  Eddy  Adventures  of  a  Mdtase, Stella  Gregory 

Tattlers, Allie  Hardy jBaloon  Ascension, Clara  Wade 

Mourning  on  Earth, Jennie  Barrett' A  Dream, Rosa  Cutler 

The  Shelby  County  Times,  June  25,  1868,  R.  Summerlin, 
editor,  in  noticing  these  exercises,  expressed  surprise  that  boys 
so  young  gave  gestures  and  declaimed  in  "so  perfect  a  manner. 
The  older  boys,  also,  did  themselves  great  credit.  *  *  There 
were  two  original  orations  delivered;  one  by  Adolph  Sumerlin 
and  one  by  C.  W.  Johnson.  Miss  Susan  Lowe's  'Burlesque  on 
Fashion'  was  very  good  and  just  suits  the  times.  *  *  The 
exercises  were  interspersed  by  excellent  music  by  Mrs.  Jerome's 
singing  class."  -  The  Shelby  County  Union  of  the  same  date, 
says :  "There  seemed  to  be  considerable  of  friendly  competition 
between  the  two  divisions  as  to  which  went  through  the  exercises 
in  the  most  praiseworthy  manner,  and  we  have  frequently  been 
asked  which  we  thought  did  the  most  credit  to  itself."  But 
the  Union  prudently  declines  to  decide,  publicly  at  least,  in  a 
case  "where  all  did  so  nobly."  At  the  conclusion  of  the  exer- 
cises on  the  last  day,  the  Principal  presented  prizes  of  books  to 
Walter  C.  Headen,  Thomas  HolloAvay,  Lillie  Cook  and  Alice  Yost, 
for  excellence  in  orthography.  In  a  few,  simple  and  touching  re- 
marks, Mr.  Jerome  bade  the  pupils  an  affectionate  good-bye,  as  his 
custom  was  on  the  last  day  of  school,  after  which  the  music  class 
rendered  beautifully  and  tenderly :  "We  May  Meet  By  and  By." 

FIFTEENTH  ACADEMICAL   YEAH,  1868-9. 

The  last  year  of  the  Seminary's  work  commenced  Wednes- 
day, September  9th,  1868,  the  corps  of  instructors  continuing 
as  before,  except  that  Miss  Mary  A.  Hall  was  chosen  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Mr.  North.  Miss  Hall  re- 
signed at  the  end  of  the  Winter  term  and  Miss  Lou  M.  Mason 
was  employed  in  that  department.  Miss  O.  J.  Higby  was  also  a 
teacher  during  that  year. 


35  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

We  find  no  account  of  the  closing  exercises  of  the  winter 
session.  The  only  record  found  of  that  period  is  this  brief 
notice  in  the  Union  of  Jan.  28,  1869: 

SHELBY  SEMINARY  — The  Spring  and   Summer  term    will  open   next 
Monday,  February  1,  1869.     Terms,  same  as  before.          C.  W.  JEROME. 

But  we  gather  from  various  sources  that  the  work  for 
the  year  was  unusually  successful,  and  in  June,  1869,  closed 
with  the  usual  public  examinations,  and  with  one  last  exhibition. 
Familiar  names  are  found  in  this  last  program: 

SHELBY  SEMINARY  EXHIBITION. 


FRIDAY  EVENING,  JUNE  18th,  1869. 


ORDER  OF  EXERCISES. 
Song  and  Chorus—  We  Come,  Dear  Friends  to  Greet  You  ....................  By  The  School. 

Instrumental  Solo—  La  Chatelaine  ............  .  ...................................  Anna  West. 

Declamation—  The  Sailor  Boy's  Dream  .................   ..............  Thomas  T.  Holloway. 

Song—  Whistling  Chorus  .......................................................  Several  Boys. 

Declamation—  The  Unknown  Soldier,  or  Somebody's  Darling  ..................  Clara  Wade. 

Duet-Listen!  'Tis  The  Woodbird's  Song...  ....  ..... 


CANTATA  OF  THE  MONTHS  AND  SEASONS. 

Opening  Chorus—  A  Year  Has  Come  ....................  ,>  ........................  The  Class. 

January  Solo  ..................................................................  Stella  Gregory. 

February  Solo  ................................................................  Esther  PenwelL 

WINTER  CHORUS. 

March  Solo  .......................................................................  Anna  West. 

April  Solo  ............................................  ,  ...........................  Rosa  Cutler. 

May  Solo  and  Chorus  .........................................  Mollie  Parker  and  Ida  Collins. 

SPRING  TRIO  AND  CHORUS. 

June  Solo  ......................................................................  Anna  Headen. 

July  Solo  ...........................  .  ......  ...................................  Ella  Martin. 

August  Solo  ...................................................................  Maggie  Fouke. 

SUMMER  TRIO  AND  CHORUS. 

September  Solo  ........................................  Misses  Cynthia  Pugh  and  Belle  Park. 

October  Solo  ...........................  '.  .  Misses  Lizzie  Middlesworth  and  Florence  Young. 

November  Solo  ....................................................................  Dora  Hall. 

AUTUMN  TRIO. 

December  Solo  .........................................  .......................  Lizzie  Tackett. 

Chorus  by  the  Twelve-Months. 

WOMAN'S  RIGHTS,  —  A  COLLOQUY. 

AtflrrnaHve.  —    Eliza  M.  Barrett,  Florence  Young  and  Clinton  Middlesworth. 

Negative,—       Celia  Weakley,  Mary  E.  Hannaman  and  Alfred  H.  Weyand. 
Song—  The  Burlesque  Band  .....................................................  Several  Boys. 

Instrumental  Solo—  Queen  of  the  Fairies  ..................................  Mrs.  Ella  Martin. 

Declamation  —  Rienzi's  Address  to  the  Romans  ...........   .....  .  ..........  Eddie  Housem  . 

Instrumental  Duet-A.  B.  C.  .  .  .    )  ^Sc^\ 

DTALOOTE—  IGNORANCE  AND  WILFULNESS  . 

Student  ...........................................................  Edward  A.  Cook. 

Deacon  Homespun  ...................................................  Philo  Fonke. 

Minister  .....................  ........................................  Locke  Penwell. 

Instrumental  Solo—  Convent  Bells  .......  ...........  Lizzie  Tackett. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  36 


Solo  and  Chorus— The  "Singin  Skewl."— Comic '. 

Declamation—  Spartacus  to  the  Gladiators Fred  Slocum. 

Solo  and  Chorus— Ram  on  The  tloof Mr.  Jerome  and  four  young  Misses. 

<  Mrs.  Jerome. 

Instrumental  Duet— Home,  Sweet  Home ^    jjrs  Dannie  Guilf  ord 

This  ended  the  direct  work  ot  the  institution  which  for 
fifteen  years  had  afforded  the  youth  of  Shelbyville  and  vicinity 
a  most  excellent  means  for  acquiring  an  education. 

The  mission  of  that  which  was  at  first  the  "Shelby  Academy" 
and  afterwards  the  "Shelbyville  Seminary,"  was  accomplished; 
the  establishment  in  the  city  of  a  system  of  public  schools,  with 
a  high  school  that  could  take  the  place  of  the  Seminary,  pre- 
pared the  way  for  its  discontinuance. 

In  August,  1869,  the  Seminary  property  was  transferred  to 
the  Board  of  Education  of  the  Shelbyville  Graded  Schools,  which 
had  obtained  a  charter  at  the  previous  session  of  the  Legislature, 
the  Board  of  Education  assuming  and  paying  the  indebtedness 
thereon,  amounting  to  between  8600  and  8700. 

Prof.  Charles  L.  Howard,  one  of  the  most,  if  not  the  most, 
energetic  and  efficient  Principals  of  our  Public  Schools  since 
the  Seminary  ceased  to  be,  had  occasion,  in  preparing  a  chapter 
on  the  schools  of  Shelby  county  for  our  County  History  (pub- 
lished in  1881 )  to  inquire  into  the  history  and  workings  of  the 
Old  Seminary.  The  result  of  his  inquiries  is  given  in  that 
chapter,  and  in  a  more  extended  form  in  the  pages  of  the  Shelby- 
ville Democrat,  then  edited  by  Dr.  E.  E.  Waggoner.  (By  the 
way,  to  those  papers  the  writer  of  the  present  sketch  is  largely 
indebted  for  valuable  suggestions.)  Prof.  Howard  concludes 

his  sketch  in  the  following  terse  and  true  words: — 

"The  examinations  of  the  Seminary  classes  were  always  public,  and  of 
such  a  thorough  character  as  to  make  them  always  interesting.  The  fre- 
quent lectures  by  prominent  men  before  the  school,  arid  its  own  exhibitions 
contributed  largely  to  form  the  taste  for  rational  amusements  ihat  still  re- 
mains in  the  community.  No  one  can  estimate  the  value  of  the  work  of  the 
institution,  or  the  extent  of  its  influence,  though  in  many  respects  it  was 
unpretentious,  as  compared  with  similar  institutions — it  never  spoiled  itself 
by  trying  to  be  a  college.  Its  patrons  speak  of  it  with  pride,  and  its  children 
cherish  the  memory  of  the  old  days  as  among  the  happiest  in  their 
lives.  Its  Avails  may  crumble  and  decay,  but  long  will  the  'Old  Seminary' 
live  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  knew  and  loved  it." 


37  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL, 

CHANGE  !   CHANGE  !    CHANGE  ! 

To  many  who  attended  during  the  later  years  of  the  Semi- 
iiary,  some  of  the  names  in  the  earlier  catalogues  and  programs 
may  seem  strange;  yea,  some  names  that  were  once  well  known 
may  have  been  so  changed,  ( and  in  case  of  the  girls  hidden  by 
surnames),  as  not  to  be  recognized  by  the  old  teachers  and 
schoolmates  who  knew  them,  then,  as  Willie,  Eddie,  Frank, 
Delia,  Demma,  Minnie,  Maria,  Mollie,  etc.,  etc.  But  to  most  of 
the  readers  of  this  sketch  the  names  which  occur  on  the  pro- 
grams of  the  last  years  will  seem  familiar  as  household  words. 
Looking  back,  it  appears  but  a  few  brief  months,  or  years  at  most, 
since  the  Old  Seminary  grounds  resounded  with  the  voices  of 

"The  playful  children  just  let  loose  from  school." 

Less  than  twenty  years  ago  most  of  those  whose  names  ap- 
pear on  the  last  two  programs  were  boys  and  girls,  not  yet  all 
in  their  teens.  Now  they  are  men  and  women,  and  several  of 
them  husbands  and  wives  and  fathers  and  mothers.  Nearly  all, 
as  we  remember,  were  born  in  Shelby  ville  and  vicinity  and  were 
at  home  with  parents  while  they  attended  school.  But  now 
they  are  scattered  far  and  wide,  from  the  northwest  "where 
rolls  the  Oregon,"  to  the  far  West  and  South.  Some,  we  think 
of,  are  in  the  "Lone  Star"  state.  Some  are  doctors,  some  lawyers, 
some  editors,  some  printers,  some  merchants,  some  carpenters, 
and  others  are  teachers.  A  few  remain  with  us  to  this  day; 
while  others,  whose  sunrise  of  life  seemed  most  radiant,  have 
already  vanished  forever  from  the  earthly  homes  they  bright- 
ened. "Change  is  stamped  on  everything."  The  writer  re- 
members, distinctly,  these  words,  the  first  sentence  in  the  third 
declamation,  given  at  the  first  exhibition  thirty-two  years  ago,  by 
one  whose  earthly  body  has  long  since  answered  the  summons 
to  decay.  Yes,  "Change  is  stamped  on  everything,"  earthly. 
This  summer,  the  walls  that  then  echoed  with  happy  young  voices 
now  resound  with  the  mason's  trowel  and  the  carpenter's 
hammer.  The  old  walls  are  having  new  windows,  and  the  old 
rooms  are  being  changed  and  remodeled  to  accommodate  the 


MICHAEL  D.   GREGORY. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINAKY  MEMOEIAL.  38 

overflow  of  little  folks  from  the  large,  but  crowded  public  school 
rooms.  Of  the  seven  hundred  children  who  now  go  to  our 
schools,  some  of  whom  will  recite  in  the  Old  Seminary  rooms  next 
fall,  none  were  born  when  those  of  eighteen  years  ago  who  are 
now  men  and  women — aye,  fathers  and  mothers,  some  of  them 
— spoke  their  final  pieces  and  sang  their  farewell  songs  within 
those  same  brick  walls. 

"So  the  multitude  goes,  like  the  flowers  or  the  weed 
That  withers  away  to  let  others  succeed; 
So  the  multitude  comes,  even  those  we  behold, 
To  repeat  every  tale  that  has  ever  been  told," 


AFTER  THE  LAST  CLOSING  EXERCISES  OF  THE 
SEMINARY. 

TOKENS  OF  ENDUEINQ  REGARD. 

During  the  period  of  Mr.  Jerome's  long  labors  in  the  school 
and  for  the  community,  the  students  and  friends  to  whom  he 
gave  himself  in  enthusiastic  service  frequently  expressed 
their  appreciation  by  some  token  of  esteem  and  love.  One  of 
these  tokens  was  a  "time  keeper,"  made  of  the  most  precious 
metal,  which  was  presented  to  him  in  the  Seminary  Hall  at  the 
close  of  one  of  the  first  years  of  the  school.  The  presentation 
was  made  in  a  neat  speech  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  Hon.  A.  Thornton.  We  presume  that  that  same  gold 
watch  beats  to-day  near  the  heart  of  the  teacher  who,  grown 
venerable  in  years,  still  delights  to  keep  green  the  memory  of 
all  his  friends  and  pupils. 

In  some  parting  words  spoken  thirty  years  ago,  and  pre- 
served in  a  scrap  book  of  one  of  his  pupils,  Mr.  Jerome  said: 
''Finally,  kind  friends,  loving  pupils,  one  and  all,  Farewell  ! 
Your  names  have  been  carefully  placed  in  'Memory's  precious 
jewel  casket,'  not  to  be  forgotten."  This  we  remember  was  a 
favorite  phrase  with  Mr.  Jerome,  and,  evidently,  because  it  so 
truly  and  beautifully  expressed  the  sentiment  of  his  heart. 

And  now,  after  fifteen  years  service,  precious  metal  of 
another  kind  and  in  another  form,  is  presented  him  as  a  parting 


39  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL, 

token  of  gratitude;  and  this  time  the  presentation  speech  is  made 
by  one  who  was  not  born  when  the  first  token  was  presented. 
The  Union  of  July,  1869,  alludes  to  the  incident  as  follows: — 

It  being  understood  that  this  was  the  close  of  Prof.  Jerome's  labors 
among  us  as  an  instructor,  the  students  took  opportunity  to  make  the  close 
of  the  exhibition  the  occasion  for  testifying  to  the  esteem  in  which  they  held 
him  by  presenting  him  with  a  most  beautiful  and  valuable  silver  set,  con- 
sisting of  a  teapot,  sugar  bowl  and  cream  pitcher.  The  presentation  speech 
was  made  by  Miss  Ella  Clements,  a  young  lassie  of  twelve  or  thirteen  sum- 
mers, who  performed  her  duty  most  admirably.  Prof.  Jerome  accepted  the 
gift  with  a  neat  and  appropriate  speech,  after  which  the  audience  of  five 
hundred  persons,  all  the  hall  would  accommodate,  dispersed  to  their  homes. 
FINAL  RESIGNATION  OF  PEOF.  JEROME. 

The  following  appeared  in  the  local  papers  of  Shelbyville  in 
July,  1869: 

Circumstances  compel  me  to  ask  a  release  from  the  position,  which  by 
the  favor  and  forbearance  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  friends,  I  have  held 
for  the  past  fifteen  years.  I  am  aware  that  I  sacrafice  somewhat  upon  re- 
tiring, yet,  I  do  it  advisedly,  as  most  congenial  to  my  own  feelings,  and  cer- 
tainly best  for  the  school. 

With  many  thanks  for  favors,  and  with  the  kindest  feelings  for  all,  I 
have  formally  and  finally  resigned  the  Principalship  of  the  Institution. 

The  whole  number  of  different  students  who  have  attended  during  the 
time  I  have  had  charge  of  the  Institution  is  one  thousand  and  sixty  two. 
Of  this  number  seventy-four  now  sleep  in  the  "chamber  of  clay."  Eighty- 
four  were  in  the  army,  seventeen  of  whom  laid  down  their  lives  in  the  cause 
of  our  country.  Five  fell  while  nobly  and  bravely  defending  the  old  flag. 
One  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Ft.  Donelson— one  at  Pea  Ridge,  one  at  Baton 
Rouge,  one  at  Chancellorsville,  and  one  on  the  bloody  field  of  Chickamauga. 
Eleven  died  in  camp  and  hospitals  from  wounds,  and  diseases  incident  to 
army  life. — Two  died- in  the  prisons  of  Andersonville,  and  one  was  a  confed- 
erate soldier,  and  died  a  prisoner  in  the  Federal  lines.  Two  have  been 
assasinated,  and  three  have  been  drowned.  A  few  have  been  lost  sight  of 
entirely.  Many  others  are,  to-day,  scattered,  here  and  there,  all  over  the 

land. 

"One  boon  I  crave  for  each  !    I  ask  for  all, 

Master  !    Thy  still  small  voice  this  day  may  call; 

And  guided  by  its  sound,  they  each  may  go, 

And  drink  the  Fount,  whence  living  waters  flow; 

May  all  at  last  be  found  to  claim  their  share,— 

A  crown — a  mansion — in  the  Kingdom  fair  !" 

There  have  been  connected  with  the  Institution  thirty  different  teachers 
and  assistants.  Three  of  these  have  passed  "to  that  undiscovered  country, 
from  whose  bourne  no  traveller  ever  returns."  The  teachers  have  been  in 
labors,  in  efficiency,  and  in  fraternal  kindness,  all  that  could  be  desired. 

The  agreeable,  and  we  would  fain  hope  useful  relation  we  have  held  to 
the  Shelby  Male  and  Female  Seminary,  is  now,  in  God's  Providence,  sun- 
dered forever.  The  duties  of  the  station  have  been  arduous  and-  trying,  yet 


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with  accessory  aid,  \ve  liave  been  enabled  to  go  through  with  them  in  a 
manner,  we  hope,  somewhat,  satisfactory  to  the  friends  and  public.  That  we 
have  erred  is  quite  probable,  yet  we  have  done  the  best  we  possibly  could 
under  the  circumstances.  To  the  friends  of  the  Institution  we  are  under 
untold  obligations  for  filial  regard  and  kindness.  Our  pupils,  the  sharers  of 
the  largest  place  in  our  affections,  have  reciprocated  love  for  love.  Life  has 
not  been  without  its  thousands  of  cares  and  vexations,  yet  the  last  fifteen 
years  spent  within  the  walls  of  Shelby  Seminary,  have  passed  happily  away, 
and  not  entirely  without  hope,  that  some  small  fraction  has  been  accom- 
plished. 

Finally,  kind  friends,  dear  pupils,  one  and  all,  farewell !  *  *  * 
To  you  the  future  is  radiant  with  hope.  For  us  to  live  is  to  labor,  and  ac- 
complish all  that  is  in  our  power.  We  know  not  where  our  grave  will  be 
made.  We  had  thought  it  might  be  in  one  of  your  own  beautiful  ceniete 
ries,  by  the  side  of  the  loved  ones  gone  before.  It  may  be  among  strangers 
— it  matters  not.  May  we  meet  in  heaven  ! 

"Heaven  is  the  Christian  pilgrim's  home, 
His  rest  at  every  stage." 

C.  W.  JEROME. 
A  FAREWELL  MEETING  AMD  A  JUST  TRIBUTE. 

The  Shelby  County  Union  of  August  25th,  1869,  in  a  well 
written  editorial,  pays  a  richly  deserved  tribute  to  the  retiring 
Principal  and  his  .worthy  wife.  It  says:— 

"For  fifteen  long  and  laborious  years  has  Prof.  Charles  W. 
Jerome  been  the  respected  and  highly  efficient  principal  of 
Shelby  Seminary,  and  the  time  has  now  come  when  duty  beckons 
him  to  another  field  of  usefulness,  and  before  he  takes  his  de- 
parture he  called  upon  his  pupils  and  friends,  old  and  young,  to 
'Come,  let  us  once  more  take  you  by  the  hand  before  we  part.' 

"In  response  to  the  summons,  on  Friday  evening  last,  a  large 
number  of  friends  and  former  students  met  together  in  the  Semi- 
nary grounds,  to  grasp,  it  may  be  for  the  last  time  this  side  'the 
River,'  the  hand  of  a  beloved  teacher  and  friend.  Among  the 
number  were  several  who  were  there  as  students  fifteen  years 
ago.  For  the  evening,  years  were  seemingly  ignored.  All  came 
together  as  of  yore,  and  all  seemed  to  enjoy  themselves  most 
heartily.  At  a  late  hour  the  meeting  broke  up;  the  last  good-bye 
was  spoken,  and  each  returned  to  his  or  her  home,  to  think  of 
their  happy  school  days,  and  the  pleasant  memories  brought  to 
mind  by  the  associations  of  the  eveliing. 


41  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

"Not  alone  lias  Mr.  Jerome  labored.  'As  a  teacher  of  music 
his  estimable  and  accomplished  lady  has  divided  with  him  his 
seasons  of  joy  or  sorrow;  of  sunshine  and  shadow,  and  along 
with  him  shares  the  well  deserved  affection  and  respect  of  all 
who  have  beep  in  any  way  connected  with  them;  and  when  the 
time  shall  come  which  transfers  them  from  our  midst,  they  bear 
with  them  the  best  wishes  and  kindliest  regards  of  hosts  of 
friends,  and  if  it  is  not  permitted  that  we  should  meet  this  side 
of  eternity  may  we  all  be  prepared  to  meet  in  heaven." 

(     ANOTHER  RE-UNION,  IN  1870. 

Another  re-union  was  held  August  30th,  1870,  when  the 
"dearie  days"  were  again  lived  over.  The  following  account  of 
it  was  written  by  one  of  the  participants: 

"On  Tuesday  evening,  August  30th,  there  was  a  large  number  of  pupils 
and  teachers  of  Old  Shelby  Seminary,  assembled  at  the  Seminary  grounds, 
called  together  by  a  vacation  visit  to  this  place,  of  the  former  Principal,  Prof. 
C.  W.  Jerome,  who  now  pursues  his  profession  in  a  city  far  away  in  the 
Sunny  Land  of  the  South. 

"The  grounds,  which  were  nicely  illuminated  with  Chinese  lanterns, 
were  filled  to  almost  overflowing  with  a  chatting,  laughing  handshaking 
company  of  all  ages,  from  the  prattling  child  to  the  gray-headed  old  man  of 
three-score  and  ten. 

"After  a  season  of  congratulation  and  social  enjoyment,  the  company 
was  called  to  order,  and  Mr.  Jerome  taking  station  xipon  the  door  step 
rehearsed  some  of  the  more  prominent  points  in  his  career  as  Principal  of 
Shelby  Seminary,  from  its  beginning  in  1854  to  its  final  winding  up  and 
niergement  into  our  newly  organized  system  of  Graded  Schools  in  1869, 
stating  as  well  as  his  memory  would  permit  the  number  of  students  he  had 
enrolled,  and  what  had  become  of  them. 

"He  was  followed  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Douthit,  a  former  pupil  and  teacher, 
Col.  D.  C.  Smith,  Prof.  Hobbs,  Superintendent  of  city  schools,  and  others, 
in  short  speeches  pertinent  to  the  occasion.  The  writer  of  this,  a  former 
student  and  teacher,  also  made  a  few  scattering  remarks.  About  half-past 
ten  o'clock  the  happy  company  dispersed,  perfectly  delighted  with  the 
arrangements  and  incidents  of  the  evening." 


"THE  PLATONIAN  SOCIETY." 

On  November  14,  1855,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Principal, 
certain  of  the  older  male  students  organized  the  "Platonian 
Literary  Society."  Jasper  L.  Douthit  was  elected  President  and 
Thos.  H.  Graham,  Secretary.  The  dim  pages  of  an  old  diary 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  42 

tell  the  story  of  the  painful  experience  of  the  first  President  in 
assuming  his  novel  and  arduous  (?)  duties.  We  copy  a  few 
sentences  from  this  diary,  just  as  they  were  hurriedly  written 
in  pencil  at  first  and  afterward  traced  more  leisurely  with  ink: — 

Nov.  14, 1855.  A  Society  organized  in  Academy,  to  be  called  Platoneon 
Society.  Elected  me  President.  It  appears  impossible  for  me  to  act,  but 
I  was  too  timid  to  decline.  O!  whoever  felt  as  I  do! 16th.  Distress- 
ed. Tried  to  get  Mr.  Burroughs  to  occupy  the  chair;  but  he  wouldn't. 
Took  it  mvself.  Got  along  tolerably  well.  Some  little  disturbance.  I  gave 
the  decision  in  favor  of  F.  R.  Waggoner,  champion  of  the  negative.  On  ad- 
journing it  was  agreed  that  I  present  the  thanks  of  the  society  to  Messrs. 
Jerome  and  Burroughs  for  their  kindness  in  assisting  the  society,  which  I 
did  at  11  P.  M.,  before  going  to  bed. 

This  now  amusing  record  so  seriously  experienced  at 
the  time,  will  not  seem  strange  to  hundreds  who  have  in  their 
earlier  years  suffered  at  what  in  after  years  they  have  recalled 
with  a  smile,  to  think  how  much  they  magnified  little  trials. 
However,  this  society  is  rernembeied  by  several  who  will 
soon  be  old  men  as  a  pleasant  and  helpful  part  of  the  dear  old 
school.  In  the  catalogue  of  that  first  year,  ending  July  24th, 
1856,  it  was  said:— 

The  Platonian  Literary  Society  offers  every  advantage  for  improvement 
in  discussion  and  literature.  The  meetings  are  held  weekly,  and  when  the 
student  is  prompt,  and  an  effort  is  put  forth  for  a  proper  performance,  the 
benefits  that  accrue  therefrom  are  numerous  and  very  perceptible. 

A  similar  statement  was  published  in  succeeding  catalogues 
until  1859.  Just  when  that  very  interesting  lyceum  with  the 
pretentious  adjective  "Platonian"  ceased  to  be,  the  writer 
regrets  not  to  know.  No  record  of  it  has  come  to  light,  at  this 
writing,  except  that  in  the  old  diary  and  catalogues  quoted 
above.  But  blessed  be  the  memory  of  it,  and  of  the  fellow  stu- 
dents who  at  the  end  of  each  school  week  met  in  that  north  room 
of  the  Old  Seminary  to  train  in  oratory  and  engage  in  lively  de- 
bate on  important  qxiestions — the  questions  were  all  "very 
important."  "Mr.  President,  this  is  a  very  important  question!" 
was  the  phrase  with  which  each  amateur  speaker  usually  began 
the  debate;  it  was  about  all  the  language  he  could  readily  com- 
mand on  first  taking  the  floor. 


43  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

One  question  that,  because  of  its  exciting  and  somewhat  ex- 
plosive character,  we  were  inclined  to  avoid  in  our  debates  then, 
— the  question  of  the  evil  of  African  Slavery, — has  since  been 
settled  forever,  thank  God;  but  alas!  in  a  manner  bloody  and 
sorrowful  for  thousands  and  thousands.  But  there  was  one 
serious  and  very  practical  question  then  debated  by  those  young 
Platonians  that  is  still  open  for  discussion  and  as  serious  and 
practical  as  ever.  From  the  old  diary  referred  to,  we  learn  that 
the  question  discussed  on  the  evening  of  January  18th,  1856,  was 
this:  "Is  a  Prohibitory  Liquor  Law  Essential?"  The  diary  reads: 
"I  took  the  negative  and  lost  the  question."  By  the  way,  what 
is  a  little  remarkable,  (after  so  many  marvelous  changes  every 
way,  and  after  the  frosts  of  thirty  winters  have  fallen  upon  the 
heads  of  those  who  then  engaged  in  trying  to  solve  the  temper- 
ance problem, )  that  same  person  who  argued  against  prohibition, 
for  once  at  least,  thirty  years  ago  and  "lost  the  question"  stood 
this  summer  in  that  same  old  room  and  near  the  same  part  of 
the  floor  to  report  favorably  for  Prohibition.  But  this  ques- 
tion of  questions  among  philanthropists  and  legislators  is  not 
yet  settled — not  yet  really  "lost"  nor  "gained";  although  the 
times  are  full  of  hopeful  prophecy,  and  we  are  very  sure  that  not 
a  single  teacher  nor  but  very  few  pupils  of  the  Old  Seminary 
but  will  rejoice  to  have  this  question  settled  forever,  so  that 

"  The  fire  shall  go  out  in  the  still, 

And  the  worm  that  has  nursed  it  be  dead; 
Its  ruins  give  place  to  the  mill, 

To  feed  all  the  people  with  bread. 

CHORUS. — In  the  sweet  bye-and-bye, 

O!  welcome  that  beautiful  day! 
In  the  sweet  bye-and-bye, 
When  Christians  shall  act  as  they  pray." 


CYRUS  HALL. 


THE   TRUSTEES. 

According  to  the  records  found,  there  were  fifteen  different 
persons  who  were  elected  and  acted  as  trustees  of  this  institution, 
from  the  first  to  last  It  has  been  difficult  to  ascertain  the 
exact  order  of  election  of  all  the  trustees,  or  the  precise  period 
for  which  every  one  served.  It  will  be  seen,  according  to  the 
original  declaration  printed  on  fifth  page  of  this  memorial,  the 
Board  of  Trustees  could  not  exceed  seven*  The  first  seven  con- 
sisted of  John  D.  Bruster,  Rand  Higgins,  George  W.  Fisher, 
Charles  C.  Scovil,  Joseph  Oliver,  John  G.  Selby  and  Anthony 
Thornton. 

The  names  of  the  Trustees  as  printed  on  the  four  different 
catalogues,  being  the  only  catalogues  so  far  as  we  can  learn  that 
were  ever  printed,  appear  in  the  following  order: — 

TEUSTEES  IN  THE  FIRST  CATALOGUE  FOR  THE  YEAE  ENDING 

JULY  24th,  1856. 

Charles  C.  Scovil,  President;  Anthony  Thornton,  Sec- 
retary; Rev.  George  W.  Fisher,  Rev.  John  C.  Selby,  Charles  E, 
Woodward,  George  Wendling,  Michael  I).  Gregory. 

TRUSTEES  IN  THE  SECOND  CATALOGUE  FOR  THE  YEAR  ENDING 

JULY  22,  1857: 

Charles  C.  Scovil,  President;  Hon.  Anthony  Thornton,  Sec- 
retary; Re\.  George  W.  Fisher,  Rev.  John  C.  Selby,  Charles 
E.  Woodward,  George  Wendling,  Michael  D.  Gregory. 


46 

TRUSTEES  IN  THE  THIRD  CATALOGUE  FOR  THE  YEAR  ENDING 

JULY  22,  1858: 

Charles  C.  Scovil,  President;  Hon.  Anthony  Thornton,  Sec- 
retary ;  Rev.  George  W.  Fisher,  Kev.  John  C.  Selby,  Charles  E_ 
Woodward,  George  Wendling.,  Michael  D.  Gregory. 

TRUSTEES    IN  THE  FOURTH  CATALOGUE  FOR  THE  YEAR  ENDING 
JULY   20,  1859 1 

Charles  C.  Scovil,  President;  Hon.  Anthony  Thornton,  Sec- 
retary ;  Eev.  George  W.  Selby,  Charles  E.  Woodward,  George 
Wendling,  Michael  D,  Gregory, 

The  following  record,,  made  by  Judge  Thornton,  the  faith- 
ful secretary  for  many  years,  of  a  trustee  meeting,  tells  its  own. 

story.     We  copy  verbatim  and  in  the  form  recorded  by  secretary : 

November  15,  1859. 

Cyrus  Hall  elected  trustee  in  place  of  George  W.  Fisher.  Judson  A. 
Roundy  elected  trustee,  in  place  of  M.  D.  Gregory,  resigned.  Present  at 
this  meeting:-  C.  C.  SCOVIL,  Pres't, 

C.  E.  WOODWARD,  • 
J.  C.  SELBY, 
GEORGE  WENDLING, 
ANTHONY  THORNTON. 

This  same  year  of  1859,  sometime  after  above  date  of  Nov- 
ember, Mr.  Thornton  severed  his  connection  with  the  Board. 
(See  page  8). 

In  1867,  the  year  the  school  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  "Shelbyville  Seminary,"  we  understand  that  C.  C. 
Scovil,  C.  E.  Woodward,  W.  J.  Henry,  James  Durban  and  S. 
W.  Moulton  constituted  the  Board  of  Trustees;  and  these  gen- 
tleman probably  continued  in  office  to  the  end. 

It  will  be  noticed  from  the  foregoing  names,  by  those  ac- 
quainted with  the  parties  who  were  from  time  to  time  on  the 
Board,  that  there  were  always  a  majority  from  the  Methodist 
Church.  This  was  the  agreement  from  the  beginning.  The 
Trustees  who  were  not  members  of  that  church  were  Thornton, 
Gregory,  Woodward,  Roundy  and  Moulton. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Educafion  of  the  Shelbyville 
Graded  Schools,  held  August  18, 1869,  it  is  recorded  that  "  the 


'SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  4? 

'committee  on  deeds  Avas  requested  to  secure  quit  claim  deeds  to 
'the  Seminary  property  from  Anthony  Thornton  and  Joseph 
Oliver,  the  surviving  members  of  the  original  Board  of  Trustees 
•of  said  Academy."  Since  then  "Uncle  Joseph,"  as  he  was 
i-everently  called,  1ms  been  gathered  to  his  fathers,  leaving 
Judge  Anthony  Thornton  the  sole  surviving* one  of  those  six 
good  citizens  who  thirty-three  years  ago  next  St.  Valentine's  Day 
gave  their  hands  and  seals  as  members  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees at  their  first  meeting. 

Of  the  fifteen  above  named  Trustees,  only  five  are  now  011 
earth,  .namely:  Roundy,  Woodward,  AVendling,  Durban  and 
Thornton.  Mr.  Roundy  moved  to  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  several  years 
since,  while  the  others  still  walk  our  streets  and  attend  to  their 
daily  duties  as  of  yore.  To-day,  the  writer  has  seen  Mr.  Wood- 
ward at  his  office,  in  the  Star  Mills, where  he  may  be  always  found, 
early  and  late,  greeting  customers  pleasantly,  and,  in  leisure 
moments,  reading  the  daily  papers;  we  have  talked  with  Judge 
Thornton  in  his  law  office  and  examined  some  of  the  old  records 
so  carefully  preserved  by  him  since  the  time  he  acted  as  clerk; 
we  have  greeted  Mr.  Durban,  smiling  as  ever,  but  under  the  frost 
of  years,  as  he  carries  a  grand-child  in  his  arms  to  visit  a  neigh- 
bor; and  at  even  tide  we  have  been  seated  for  a  pleasant  chat  con- 
cerning Old  Seminary  days  beside  Mr.  Wendling  on  the  porch 
of  his  cosy  cottage,  built  on  the  same  ground  where  he  has 
lived  and  wrought  for  half  a  century,  for  many  years  at  the  smith's 
forge,  but  of  late  years  he  is  content  to  dress  the  vines  and 
fruit  trees  that  surround  his  home  and  spend  his  leisure  in  read- 
ing and  neighborly  visits. 

THEIK  PICTUKES  AND  THEIK  LIVES. 

We  are  pleased  to  present  in  these  pages  portraits  of  a  feAV 
of  the  trustees,  and  regret  that  our  readers  may  not  behold  the 
likeness  of  every  one.  There  was  the  Rev.  George  Fisher  with 
dark,  earnest  eyes,  overshadowed  with  heavy  brows,  and  with  a 
stentorian  voice  that  thundered  law  and  gospel  to  arouse  sleepy 
sinners  to  repentance;  there  was  Rev.  John  Selby,  a  farmer  and 


48  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL 

local  preacher,  who  moved  to  town,  near  the  Seminary,  that  his 
children  might  be  educated  for  usefulness.  Neither  of  these  men 
were  rich  in  this  world's  goods;  but  each  subscribed  §120— a 
big  sum  in  those  days — to  build  the  school,  and  they  were  will- 
ing to  do  more.  We  must  not  forget  Rand  Higgins  whose 
name  stands  at  thfc  very  head  of  the  list  of  subscribers  for  the 
founding  of  the  Academy;  and  he  was  a  man  to  give  more,  it'  he 
were  able  and  it  was  required.  Mr.  Higgins  was  the  enter- 
prising miller  who  owned  the  water-mill  down  by  the  railroad 
bridge  where  only  a  part  of  the  dam  remains  to  mark  the  spot. 
There  Mr.  Higgins  ground  honest  bread  for  the  people  for  many 
years;  and  in  order  to  accommodate  more  people  and  do  better 
work,  lie  added  to  the  water-power,  a  steam  engine — the  first  en- 
gine, we  believe,  for  grinding  wheat  and  corn  that  was  used  in  this 
county.  But  this  accommodating  and  ambitious  miller  reached 
beyond  his  depths,  and  passed  away,  after  weary  years,  under 
som'ething  of  a  cloud,  financially;  nevertheless  he  did  not  lose 
all;  he  was  wise  and  good  enough  to  invest  in  the  building  of  an 
institution  that  has  helped  to  educate  a  generation  who  rise  up 
to  bless  his  memory;  Band  Higgins  thus  laid  up  treasures  in 
heaven. 

JUDSON  A.  ROUNDY. 

Judson  A.  Roundy  has  already  been  alluded  to  in  these 
pages  as  a  devoted  friend  and  generous  helper  of  the  Seminary. 
He  was  an  excellent  man  possessed  of  great  business  tact,  quick 
wit,  fine  culture,  and  quiet,  modest  manners, — a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church,  bat  charitable  to  all.  The  people  of  Shelby ville 
lost  a  very  useful  citizen  when  Judson  A.  Roundy  moved  away. 
W.  J.  HENRY. 

W.  J.  Henry  was  a  resident  lawyer  of  marked  ability,  and 
had  extensive  practice  in  Shelbyville  for  many  years.  He  was 
also  the  author  of  a  valuable  book  of  reference  on  "Ecclesiastical 
Law;"  he  also  wrote  and  published  a  somewhat  elaborate  treatise 
on  the  trial  and  crucifixion  of  Christ,  entitled  "Cross  and  Crown." 
Mr.  Henry  moved  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  in  1882,  and  died 


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there  in  1885,  from  injuries  received  by  accident.  He  was  a  man 
of  great  public  spirit,  of  genial  nature,  of  very  studious  habits, 
and  a  devoted  friend  of  the  Methodist  church,  of  which  he 
was  an  active  member. 

MICHAEL  D.  GKEGOEY. 

Michael  D.  Gregory  was  born  in  Cayuga  county,  N.  Y., 
December  12,  1814;  came  to  Illinois  in  1834;  was  married  to  Miss 
Abby  J.  Cannon  of  Norwalk,  Ohio,  in  1841.  By  this  marriage 
he  was  father  to  seven  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters. 
He  died  the  eighteenth  of  August,  1864,  and  three  of  his  chil- 
dren, whom  many  of  us  remember' so  well  at  the  old  Seminary, 
namely:  his  son,  De  Leon,  and  the  two  fair  daughters,  Bella 
and  Stella  have  joined  their  father.  Mr.  Gregory  was  a  man  of 
active  business  habits;  he  was  engaged  in  real  estate,  farming 
and  mercantile  business  at  different  periods  of  life.  He  pos- 
sessed many  good  traits,  was  an  ardent  friend,  hospitable  to 
all,  a  good  neighbor,  an  enterprising  citizen  and  always  ready 
to  favor  in  our  midst  educational  institutions.  His  face  and 
bearing  was  open  and  frank  and  bespoke  the  courteous  gentle- 
man that  he  was;  and  so  his  friends  love  to  remember  him. 
JOHN  D.  BEUSTEK. 

Who  that  lived  in  Shelby  county  in  early  days  and  until  the 
year  1855,  does  not  remember  one  very  conspicuous,  manly 
figure  on  the  streets  of  Shelby ville?  It  was  Capt.  John  D. 
Bruster.  He  was  born  in  Tazewell  county,  Virginia,  May  30,  A. 
D.  1798.  He  came  to  Shelby  ville  at  a  very  early  day  (in  1827 
or  1828)  and  built  a  house  and  started  a  tan-yard  at  the 
top  of  the  hill  on  the  east  side  of  town.  The  hill  bears  his 
name  to  this  day.  He  was  married  twice,  the  last  time  to  Miss 
Isabel  Stewardson  a  noble  English  woman  who  died  a  few  years 
before  he  was  carried  away  with  the  cholera.  He  was  a  man 
of  large  physique,  tall  and  upright,  with  long,  flowing  beard  and 
dignified  bearing,  and  with  a  very  emphatic  manner  of  speech. 
His  personal  appearance,  as  we  recall  it,  reminds  us  of  one  of 
the  pictures  of  a  grand  old  Knight  of  the  days  of  chivalry. 


50  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

His  daughters,  Sarah  ( who  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  William 
Roland)  and  Mary  Jane,  (who  married  her  school  mate  at  the 
Old  Seminary,  Mr.  Jarne's  Durkee)  have  many  years  since  fol- 
lowed him  to  the  Great  Beyond,  and  only  "  Jeff "  and  Eliza 
(Mrs.  H.  S.  Mouser)  and  John  D.  are  left  of  his  sons  and 
daughters,  to  keep  green  his  memory.  One  of  the  first  Trustees 
and  a  generous  subscriber  to  the  building  fund  of  the  Shelby 
Seminary,  he  was  among  its  most  faithful  friends  till  death  took 
him ;  and  for  that  we  would  hereby  honor  his  dust. 
JAMES  DUEBAN. 

James  Durban  was  born  in  the  city  of  Chichester,  England, 
September  23,  1816;  he  emigrated  to  America  and  was  settled 
in  the  State  of  Ohio  in  1830,  and  from  thence  he  came  to 
Shebyville,  Illinois,  in  1852.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah 
Huber  in  Fairfield  county,  Ohio,  February,  1846,  with  whom  he 
lived  happily  and  raised  a  small  family  (two  daughters  now 
living  and  a  son  that  has  passed  on  before)  for  forty  years;  and 
a  few  days  after  the  celebration  of  their  fortieth  wedding  anni- 
versary she  passed  to  the  Better  Land. 

In  1853  Mr.  Durban  ceased  tailoring  and  went  into  the 
clothing  business,  after  which  he  was  clerk  for  Mr.  Eouiidy  and 
others  in  the  dry  goods  store  till  1874,  since  which  he  has  been 
mostly  i  etired,  but  filling  th,e  office  of  School  Treasurer  and  mak- 
ing himself  useful  generally.  He  is  a  steady,  almost  life-long 
member  of  the  Methodist  church,  but  with  a  genial  charity  for  all 
religious  faiths.  His  acquaintances  will  ever  remember  him  as 
the  honest  tailor  and  good  natured  salesman  who  always  wore 
a  sunny  face  and  was  ready  for  an  innocent  joke.  He  keeps  the 
same  sunny  face  to  this  day — a  manly,  open  face  that  seems  to 
say  to  every  one  he  meets:  "I  am  glad  to  see  you  and  hope  you 
are  well."  Long  may  James  Durban  live  to  smile  upon  his 
neighbors! 

JOSEPH  OLIVEE. 

No  name  is  more  familiar  to  the  people  of  Shelbyville  and  to 
the  early  residents  of  Shelby  County  than  that  of  Joseph  Oliver 


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He  was  born  in  the  State  of  Virginia  on  Christmas  day,  1794. 
He  was  in  the  War  of  1812;  and  soon  after  the  close  of  that 
war  came  to  Illinois  and  traveled  over  much  of  the  southern 
part  of  the,  then,  wild  territory  as  a  pedler.  In  the  spring  of  1827 
he  settled  in  Shelby  county  and  was  soon  after  qualified  to  fill 
the  offices  of  county  and  circuit  clerk,  recorder  and  judge  of 
probate.  He  was  also  appointed  the  first  postmaster  in  Shelby 
county,  and,  while  he  attended  to  his  duties  in  these  various 
offices  which  yielded  very  small  fees,  he  also  taught  a  subscrip- 
tion school  using  the  small  cabin  of  a  court  house  for  a  school- 
room also.  He  was  also  the  first  merchant  in  the  county  in  the 
early  days,  deriving  his  principal  trade  from  the  Indians.  He 
was  marri  ed  at  an  early  age  to  Miss  Eliza  Barthrick,  of  Virginia, 
by  whom  he  was  father  of  one  son,  Benjamin,  and  two  daughters, 
Mary  Jane  and  Eliza.  Mary  Jane  was  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Shelby viJle.  Her  birth  occurred  February  3d,  1828.  Mrs. 
Oliver  died  in  1824,  and  a  year  after  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Sallie  Fearman.  William,  Margery  A.  and  Joseph  were  children 
of  this  marriage.  Uncle  Joseph  Oliver  was  a  man  of  robust 
form,  noble  mein,  generous  heart  and  judicial  mind,  ^ie  served 
as  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  many  of  the  later  years  of  his  life. 
He  was  a  kind  friend  to  the  Seminary  from  the  beginning. 
He  continued  to  go  in  and  out  before  the  people  of  Shelbyville 
until  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six  years,  when,  with  bright 
Christian  hopes  that  lighted  his  journey  through  many  years,  he 
was  gathered  home  to  his  fathers. 

GEOKGE  WENDL1NG. 

George  Wendling  was  born  February  9th,  1815,  near  the 
city  of  Strasburg,  in  the  province  of  Alsatia,  then  a  part  of 
France  but  now  a  part  of  the  German  Empire.  He  emigrated 
to  America  in  1832.  A  poor  man  when  he  came  here,  as  to 
worldly  treasures,  he  possessed  what  was  better  than  great 
wealth,  a  healthy  body,  stout  muscle,  industrious  habits  and  an 
honest  trade.  At  the  blacksmith's  forge  he  wrought  for  many 


52  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

years,  and  reared  and  educated  his  family.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  trustee  of  the  Seminary  and  did  a  generous  part  for  the 
school  in  its  need. 

One  incident  while  Mr.  Wendliug  was  Trustee  is  worthy  of 
mention  here.  At  the  close  of  the  Fifth  Academical  year  in  the 
summer  of  1859,  Mr.  Jerome  found  that  he  had  paid  more  that 
year  for  the  salary  of  his  teachers  than  he  had  received  for 
tuition;  he  had  lost  money;  he  was  poor  and  could  not  afford 
to  carry  on  that  kind  of  business;  and  therefore  he  concluded  to 
leave  the  school  unless  he  could  be  assured  of  at  least  $1600 
from  which  to  pay  his  teachers  arid  support  himself.  This  was 
more  than  had  been  realized  the  year  before;  and  although  it 
was  felt  by  the  friends  that  it  would  be<  a  misfortune  to  the 
institution  to  lose  the  services  of  Mr.  Jerome,  yet  there  was 
a  manifest  reluctance  to  give  the  required  guarantee;  where- 
upon Mr.  Scovil  an  1  Mr.  "Wendling,  two  of  the  Trustees,  said  to 
the  Principal:  "Go  ahead,  and  do  your  bast  with  the  school 
for  another  year,  and  we  will  personally  stand  good  for  the 
$1600."  This  guarantee  was  sufficient;  Mr.  Jerome  went 
ahead,  re-employed  Miss  Osbond  and  other  first-class  teachers 
and  at  the  end  of  the  next  year  the  income,  fortunately 
for  the  institution  and  the  guarantees,  had  reached  $2200,  being 
•$600  in  excess  of  the  expense  for  teachers.  But  if  it  had  fallen 
as  much  short,  George  Wendling  and  Charles  Scovil  were  not 
the  men  to  shrink  from  keeping  their  promise.  We  are  glad 
Mr.  Wendling  lives  among  us  to-day  to  receive  thanks  for  the 
risks  he  made  for  the  sake  of  the  Old  Seminary. 

ANTHONY  THOKNTON. 

Judge  Anthony  Thornton,  a  native  of  Kentucky  but  a  resi- 
dent of  Shelbyville  for  most  of  the  years  since  1836,  was  born 
in  1814;  so  that  he  is  now  two  years  beyond  the  allotted  age  of 
man,  but  is  still  in  vigorous  health.  He  is  too  well  known  in 
this  state  and  nation,  as  a  first  class  attorney,  as  an  honored 
judge  of  the  supreme  court  in  Illinois,  and  as  a  worthy-member 


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of  the  Unite:!  States  Congress,— to  require  any  extended  notice 
in  this  little  book.  But  nevertheless  he  deserves  a  conspicuous 
place  here.  Judge  Thornton  it  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  7th 
page  of  this  book  was  one  among  the  first  generous  contributors 
to  the  building  fund  of  the  "Academy,"  as  it  was  at  first  called. 
One  of  the  original  trustees,  he  was  clerk  of  the  Board  and  con- 
tinued to  serve  in  that  capacity,  and  with  careful  attention  to 
the  business,  for  about  six  years.  As  Prof.  Jerome  testifies  re- 
cently in  a  letter  to  the  writer,  "Judge  Thornton  was  a  devoted 
friend  to  the  Seminary  and  rendered  it  much  valuable  service, 
from  the  beginning."  Many  of  the  teachers  and  students  recall 
Mr.  Thornton's  acts  of  kindness  to  them,  with  gratitude.  For 
the  young  men  struggling,  in  poverty,  to  educate  themselves, 
Mr.  Thornton  had  warm  sympathy  and  often  spoke  hearty  and 
encouraging  words  to  the:  a.  Some  of  us  who  then  felt  lonely, 
penniless  and  almost  friendless,  will  ever  hold  in  most  tender 
and  grateful  remembrance  the  kind  words  of  this  one  among 
the  best  friends  of  the  old  school,— the  only  survivor  of  the 
original  trustees.  We  are  glad  he  still  lives  among  us,  as  ever, 
a  lover  of  young  people,— not  voluble  in  talk,  nor  given  to  flat- 
tery, but  having  more  kindly  feeling  for  everyone  than  he 
always  expresses.  Mr. 'Thornton  has  a  life-long  reputation  for 
integrity  to  which  the  years  as  they  go  but  add  lustre.  He 
has  well  earned  the  name  of  a  just  and  able  jurist,  an  honest  and 
powerful  attorney,  a  friend  of  education  and  a  liberal  minded, 
patriotic  citizen  whose  ideal  statesman  was  the  noble  Kentuck- 
ian  who  said:  "I  would  rather  be  right  than  be  president." 

CHARLES  E.  WOODWARD. 

Chas.  E.  Woodward  was  born  at  Cream  Ridge,  New  Jersey, 
June  12,  1815.  Was  raised  on  a  farm  until  about  18  years  old ; 
was  educated  at  a  Quaker  School  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  taught 
school  in  New  Jersey  until  he  was  21  years  old;  came  west  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio;  taught  school  at  College  Hill,  Ohio,  one  year; 
went  west  to  Vincennes,  Ind. ;  taught  school  there  until  July  15, 
1836,  on  which  date  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Armstrong  by 


54  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL 

whom  he  has  become  father  of  sons  and  (laughters.  He  emi- 
grated to  Shelby ville,  111.,  Jan.  1841  and  has  been  a  resident 
here  ever  since. 

Mr.  Woodward  taught  school  in  this  county  for  awhile. 
He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  for  the  organization  of  the  re- 
publican party  in  this  county  in  1856,  although  he  cast  his  vote 
for  Millard  Fillmore  for  President  that  year ;  was  appointed  post- 
master of  Shelbyville,  in  1861  by  President  Lincoln  and  served  as 
such  until  the  President  was  assassinated ;  volunteered  in  the  army 
of  the  rebellion  Aug.  1862;  was  appointed  Lieut,  and  R.  Q.  M.  of 
the  79th  Beg.  111.  Vol.  by  Gov.  Richard  Yates.  In  1863  was  de- 
tailed by  Col.  Joseph  Conrad,  who  commanded  the  3d  Brigade, 
2d  Division,  4th  Army  C.,  as  Brigade  Quarter  Master,  and  served 
in  that  brigade  until  the  12th  day  of  June,  1865  and  was  mus- 
tered out  on  account  of  cessation  of  hostilities.  He  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  milling,  stock  and  grain  business  since  1878 
and  is  at  present  proprietor  of  the  Star  Mills,  Shelbyville,  111. 

,  The  first  time  the  writer  saw  Mr.  Woodward,  to  know  him, 
must  have  been  over  thirty  years  ago;  he  was  seated  with  a 
crowd  around  him  and  was  advocating  Free  Schools  which  were 
not  so  popular  then,  by  a  great  deal,  as  they  are  now.  Many 
well-to-do  men  argued  that  the  state  had  no  more  right  to 
take  money  out  of  their  pockets  to  educate  other  people's  child- 
ren than  it  had  to  take  corn  out  of  their  cribs  to  fatten  other 
people's  pigs.  We  remember  well  the  indignation  of  Mr. 
Woodward  at  such  talk  and  the  sharp  replies  he  would  make. 
"I  should  be  ashamed  to  put  my  poor  neighbor's  children  on  a 
par  with  pigs,"  he  would  say.  Then,  we  were  likely  to  hear 
somebody,  aside,  call  him  a  Yankee,  with  an  irreverent  D.  D. 
prefixed.  But  Mr.  Woodward  has  outlived  all  that,  to  see  Shelby 
county  dotted  all  over  with  neatly  built  and  well  filled  Free 
School  houses,  and  to  see  Shelbyville  graced  with  some  of 
the  most  finely  equipped  and  best  conducted  public  schools  in 
the  state  or  nation ;  and  our  city  schools,  by  the  way,  could  never 
have  been  so  successful  but  for  the  old  Seminary  of  which  Mr. 


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"Woodward  was  always  a  friend  and  a  long  time  trustee,  and  he 
is  to-day  a  faithful  member  of  our  school  Board.  Long  may 
he  live! 

CHARLES  C.  SCOVIL. 

Charles  C.  Scovil  was  born  near  Syracuse,  New  York 
June  20,  1817.  He  came  to  Shelbyville  iti  1840  with  scarcaly 
anything  of  this  world's  goods..  But  he  had — what  was  batter 
than  money — "a  mind  to  work;"  and  he  did  work  industriously, 
early  and  late,  building  up  Shelbyville  and  vicinity  and  giving 
liberally  to  all  good  enterprises,  for  twenty-nine  years.  On 
June  19, 1869,  being  only  two  days  before  the  last  closing  exhi- 
bition of  the  Seminary,  he  passed  away  to  rest  from  his  labors. 
The  first  time  the  writer  remembers  seeing  Mr.  Scovil  must 
have  been  as  early  as  1845.  On  the  road  from  the  Higgius  mill, 
by  the  river,  and  near  the  old  city  graveyard  on  the  bluff,  was  a 
little  shop,  made  of  rough  boards  and  slabs,  and  a  man  in  his 
shirt  sleeves  busy  as  a  bee  in  that  shop  pushing  the  plane  and 
driving  nails.  That  man  was  Charles  C.  Scovil.  He  was  manu- 
facturing fanning  mills  which  were  then  in  general  use  by  farm- 
ers to  winnow  small  grains,  wheat,  oats,  etc.  In  the  course  of 
years,  this  same  man  built  and  owned  a  large  stearn,  grist  and 
saw  mill,  situated  not  far  from  where  the  National  Bank  and 
Shelby  County  Leader  building  now  stands; and  at  last,  he  pro- 
jected the  plan  and  built  the  Star  mills,  now  owned  and  run  by 
C.  E.  Woodward,  among  the  largest  and  best  mills  in  central 
Illinois.  At  one  time  Mr.  Scovil  had,  by  dint  of  industry,  econ- 
omy and  perseverance,  become  posessed  of  a  large  amount  of 
this  world's  goods,  but  he  never  hoarded;  his  money  like  his 
two  brawny  hands,  was  always  employed,  was  always  in  use. 
He  had  an  open  hand  for  the  poor  who  were  struggling  to  help 
themselves,  and  the  needy  widows  and  orphans  were  never  al- 
lowed to  suffer  for  bread  if  Charles  Scovil  knew  of  their  want. 
Mr.  Scovil  was  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Semi- 
nary during  nearly  all  of  the  fifteen  years  of  its  existence.  One 
of  the  three  who  subscribed  $250  to  the  building  fund,  he  was 


56  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

always  one  of  the  most  constant  friends  and  liberal  benefactors 
of  the  school.  His  home  was  the  place  of  abounding  hospitali- 
ty for  all  comers,  especially  for  ministers  of  the  gospel.  The  first 
teachers  of  the  Seminary  in  its  early  years  fonud  a  home  with 
his  family.  He  had  a  cheering  word  and  a  helping  hand  for 
the  poor  students  who  were  struggling  to  educate  themselves. 
"Go  ahead  and  do  your  best,  and  I  will  do  what  I  can  to  help 
you!"  was  a  characteristic  remark  of  the  man  whose  days  were 
doubtless  cut  short  on  earth  because  his  strength  was  not  equal 
to  the  burdens  he  attempted  to  carry,  and  so  he  must  needs  rest. 
Peace!  lasting  peace!  to  his  memory! 

SAMUEL  W.  MOULTON. 

Samuel  W.  Moulton  was  born  in  Hamilton,  Massachusetts, 
in  1823.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  academies 
of  his  native  town;  and  before  he  was  twenty  years  of  age  he 
came  west,  first  to  Kentucky  where  he  spent  a  year  teaching 
school,  at  the  same  time  reading  text  books  upon  law,  and  in 
1843  he  went  to  Mississippi  and  engaged  in  teaching.  While 
in  this  state  in  1844,  he  married  Miss  Mary  H.  Affleck, — a  wo- 
man of  noble  qualities  of  inind  and  heart,  intelligent,  domestic, 
wise  in  household  economy,  gracious  to  all — a  real  helpmeet  to 
her  husband  to  this  day.  In  1845  he  came  to  Coles  county, 
Illinois,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  1847.  From  thence  he 
moved  to  Sullivan  and  in  the  winter  of  1850  he  removed  to 
Shelbyville  where  he  has  remained  to  this  day.  In  1853  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  our  state  legislature,  and  was  re-elected 
for  three  successive  terms.  While  in  the  legislature  Mr.  Moul- 
ton was  appointed  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Education, 
and  he  framed  and  introduced  the  first  bill  establishing  free 
schools  in  the  state  of  Illinois.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
trustees  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  for  sixteen  years 
was  president  of  the  Board.  In  1864  Mr.  Moulton  was  elected 
to  the  39th  Congress  from  the  state  at  large,  and  in  1880  was 
elected  to  the  47th  Congress  from  the  15th  Congressional 
District. 


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We  speak  from  an  intimate  acquaintance  of  over  a  quarter 
of  a  century  when  we  say  that  few  men  have  toiled  more  incess- 
antly and  with  more  seeming  pleasure  in  their  chosen  profession 
than  has  Samuel  W.  Moulton.  In  the  meantime  he  has  given  re- 
spectful attention  to  whatever  was  going  on  of  public  import- 
ance in  the  town,  state  and  nation.  A  man  of  shrewd  business 
tact  and  of  simple  economic  habit,  he  is  nevertheless  generous 
when  occasion  seems  to  demand,  and  ever  ready  to  help  those 
who  will  try  to  help  themselves.  Affable,  sociable  and  demo- 
cratic in  his  manner  and  address,  good  natured  and  free  from 
feelings  of  spite  toward  anyone,  Mr.  Moulton  commands  the 
friendship  of  even  those  who  dislike  his  course  in  politics. 
From  the  first  to  the  last  he  manifested  kindly  interest  in  the 
Shelby  Seminary,  and  we  are  all  glad  that  he  has  lived  to  write 
the  pleasing  introduction  to  this  volume,  and  we  hope  he  may 
still  live  many  years  to  greet  his  neighbors  with  that  familiar, 
"How  do  ye  do?" 

CYKUS  HALL. 

Cyrus  Hall  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Illinois,  August  29, 
1812.  While  a  resident  in  that  county  he  enlisted  in  the  Mexi- 
can war  and  was  made  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Ferris  Foreman's 
regiment.  He  came  to  Shelby  ville  in  1860  and  kept  a  hotel  on 
the  corner  south  of  Kleeman  &  Goldstein's  dry  goods  store. 
When  the  first  gun  was  fired  on  Fort  Sumter,  he  promptly  raised 
the  first  company  in  this  county  to  go  to  the  relief  of  the  nation. 
He  was  elected  captain  and  his  company  became  a  part  of  the 
14th  Regiment  of  Illinois  Infantry,  commanded  by  John  M. 
Palmer  afterwards  Major  General,  and  governor  of  Illinois.  He 
took  part  with  his  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Donelson, 
Mission  Ridge,  Corinth,  Stone  River,  and  other  battles  of  less 
note,  and  remained  in  the  service  over  four  years,  or,  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  being  promoted  from  time  to  time  through  the 
grades  of  Major,  Lieutenant  Colonel,  the  colonelcy  of  a  regi- 
ment, and  was  finally  breveted  Brigadier  General  for  gallant 
service  on  the  field  of  battle.  He  had  the  reputation,  and  de- 


58  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

served  it,  of  being  a  true  soldier.  Returning  borne,  he  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits;  but  was  soon  appointed  Post- 
master of  Shelbyville,  and  very  acceptably  filled  that  office  for 
more  than  ten  years,  and  till  his  death  on  September  6,  1878. 

In  1849  Gen'l  Hall  married  Margaret  Jane  Knight  who 
passed  away  in  1867.  By  this  union  there  were  seven  children. 
In  1867  he  married  Miss  Sarah  Lowe.  By  this  last  mar- 
riage there  were  two  children,  both  daughters. 

General  Hall  was  a  man  of  very  popular  qualities,  of  com- 
manding appearance,  fine  physique,  pleasant  manners,  always 
wearing  a  friendly  smile  and  ready  to  great  you  with  a  warm 
hand  grasp  of  good  fellowship.  He  was  lover  of  home  and 
family,  patriotic  and  public  spirited  and  opened  handed  to 
every  good  cause,  a  devoted  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  he 
was  broad  in  sympathies,  temperate  in  his  habits,  firm  in  what 
he  believed  to  be  right,  quick  to  redress  wrong,  and,  in  a  word, 
a  noble  man.  It  is  eminently  fitting  that  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic  should  have  a  Cyrus  Hall  Post  in  Shelbyville, 
and  the  students  and  teachers  of  the  old  school  are  proud  of  the 
fact  that  he  was  one  of  its  trustees.  Ever  blessed  be  his  memory ! 


OUTER. 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINAEY  MEMORIAL.  59 


*FIRST  ANNUAL  CATALOGUE 

OF 

"SHELBY  MALE  AND  FEMALE  ACADEMY, 

MDCCCLVI." 
SHELBYVILLE,  ILLINOIS, 

FOR   THE   YEAE   ENDING   JULY   24TH,    1856. 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

CHARLES  C.  SCOVIL,  President. 
ANTHONY  THORNTON,  Esq.,  Secretary. 
Rev.  GEORGE  W.  FISHER. 
Rev.  JOHN  C.  SELBY. 


BOARD  OF  INSTRUCTION. 

CHARLES  W.  JEROME,  A.  M.  Principal, 

And  Teacher  of  Mental  and  Moral  Philosophy  and  Languages. 
CALEB  C.  BURROUGHS,  B.  S., 

Teacher  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Science. 
Miss  OLIVIA  F.  SMITH, 

Teacher  of  Instrumental  Music. 
JASPER  L.  DOUTHIT, 

Teacher  in  Preparatory  Department. 
BURKEY  MYERS, 

Assistant  Pupil. 


SHELBY  ACADEMY. 

MALE  DEPARTMENT. 
SCIENTIFIC   AND   CLASSICAL. 


NAMES.  RESIDENCE.  PRESENT   P.   O. 

James  W.  Cheeney,  Vandalia.  Detroit,  Mich. 

Zimri  Ferguson,*  Sand  Creek. 

Thomas  H.  Graham,  Shelbyville.  Shelbyville. 

*This  catalogue  is  given  entire,  word  for  word,  in  the  order  originally  printed  but  in  a 
condensed  form.  The  three  succeeding  catalogues  printed  in  1857-8-9  bear  the  same  imprint 
and  are  very  similar  in  form,  course  of  study,  etc.  to  the  first,  the  only  marked  change, 
aside  from  the  differing  list  of  names  of  trustees  teachers  and  students,  being  the  substi- 
tution of  the  word  "Seminary"  for  "Academy.''  In  printing  the  names  of  students,  the 
present  residence  or  P.O.  address  of  each  one  is  given,  so  far  as  known,  and  the  last 
names  of  females  are  attached  in  parenthesis. 

The  words  quoted  in  the  above  heading  were  printed  on  the  outside  of  the  enameled 
cover  of  the  first  catalogue. 


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SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


Eli  J.  Horseman,* 
James  A.  Horseman,*' 
Nelson  R.  Jones,* 
Francis  M.  Kelly,* 
William  E.  Killam, 
Burkey  Myers,* 
Anson  D.  Slieley, 
David  Tremble, 
Fieldon  R.  Waggoner, 
William  H.  Waggoner, 
George  R.  Wendling, 


John  Atkinson,* 
Joseph  M.  Bivins,* 
Henry  R.  Cheeuy, 
William  Campbell, 
Newton  Cox, 
Napoleon  B.  Couch, 
Charles  J.  Dexter, 
James  J.  Durkee. 
William  H.  Dawdy, 
Simon  Dawdy,* 
Baalis  M.  Davis, 
William  Freshwater, 
Edward  Harris, 
Francis  M.  Haydon,* 
William  E.  Horseman,* 
William  L.  Headen, 
John  J.  Kellar, 
Peter  M.  Killam, 
Charles  P.  Lantz, 
Nelson  Neil, 
Elbridge  A.  Oliver, 
Frank  W.  Penwell, 
George  V.  Penwell, 
Amos  A.  Rhodes, 
William  S.  Smith, 
William  B.  Selby, 
Franklin  B.  Selby, 
John  W.  Selby, 
Christopher  Snyder, 
George  Tackett,* 
Charles  Tickuer,* 
John  E.  Trower, 
Alfred  A.  Waggoner, 
Charles  S.  Woodward, 


William  Atkinson, 
Jaines  Bivins, 
George  L.  Bivins,* 
John  D.  Bruster, 
John  C.  Cramer, 
Wayne  Cramer, 
Henry  Campbell, 
James  Cutler, 
Aaron  Cutler, 
Martin  Collard, 
George  Couch, 
Cyrus  Conrad, 


Williamsburgh. 

do 
Shelby  county. 

do 

Pilot  Knob.      • 
Shelbyville. 

do  ' 
Mattoon. 
Shelby  county. 

do 
Shelbyville. 

ACADEMICAL. 

Shelbyville. 

do 

Vandalia. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 

do 

do 
Shelbyville. 

do 
Williamsburgh. 

do 

Shelbyville. 
Pilot  Knob. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

Williamsburgh. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

Moawequa. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 

PREPARATORY. 

Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Mode. 
Shelbyville. 

do 


Cowley,  Kan. 


Tower  Hill,  111. 

Shelbyville. 
Charleston,  111. 
Grass  Valley,  Gal. 

Shelbyville. 


Shelbyville.  ' 

do 

Shelbyville. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Eureka,  Kansas. 
Greenville,  111. 

Shelbyville. 
Taylorville,  111. 
Paris,  111. 


Cowdeu,  111. 
Shelbyville. 
—  Kansas. 
Shelbyville. 
Tower  Hill,  111. 

Danville,  111. 
Paua,  111. 
Taylorville,  111. 


Wichita.  Kansas. 

Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Shelbyville. 


Hutchinson,  Kansas. 
Shelbyville. 

Belle  Plain,  Kansas. 
Kansas. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Terre  Haute,  Ind. 
Tower  Hill,  111. 


'SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


61 


•John  Dagen, 
(Charles  Dawdy,* 
•James  Davis, 
John  Davis,* 
•Jerome  B.  Dreunon.* 
John  W.  Drennon,* 
William  Earp, 
Andrew  Frazier,* 
Thomas  Frazier,* 
DeLeon  Gregory,* 
Willie  Garvin, 
Nathan  T.  Garner,* 
James  Garner,* 
•George  F.  Guilford,* 
Willie  Hodgson, 
Theodore  Harris, 
John  Harris, 
Perry  Harris, 
Willie  Hatfield, 
Robert  Hefley, 
Edwin  Holden, 
Willie  Harrison, 
Moses  Jackson, 
Arthur  Johnson, 
James  Johnson, 
William  Johnson, 
Wesley  Johnson, 
Robert  Johnson, 
John  Johnson, 
Charles  H.  Laws, 
Ephraim  A.McCracken, 
Willie  Miller, 
James  Miller, 
Henry  G.  Parish, 
John  Poor, 
George  A.  Roberts, 
Joseph  J.  Renshaw, 
John  Renshaw, 
Willie  Reed, 
Lewis  Rice, 
James  Sampson, 
Thomas  J.  Selby, 
George  W.  Selby, 
Richard  Sim, 
James  L.  Sutton,* 
Jacob  Swallow, 
Willie  Spore, 
Clarence  Spore, 
James  Spore, 
Cyrus  Tallman, 
William  Tolby, 
Frederick  H.  Templeton, 
Alanson  Tickner,* 
Anderson  Vosbury,* 
Adolphus  VanDyke, 
John  Winson, 
Allen  Wicks,* 
Jacob  Werner,* 
Willie  Wade, 
Ruel  Waggoner,* 
Jacob  Wetzel, 
Willie  Williams, 


Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 
Shelby  county. 

do. 

Shelbyvilla 
Shelby  county. 

do 
Shelbyville. 

do 
Shelby  county. 

do 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Shelby  county. 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 

do 
Shelby  county. 

do 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Sullivan 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Shelby  county* 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  county. 
Shelbyvilla 

do 


Greenville,  I1L 
Pana,  111. 

.Shelbyvilla 
Windsor,  I1L 

Shelbyvilla 

Newton,  111. 
Paris,  111. 
Denver,  Col. 


Nokomis,  111. 
•Shelby  villa 


Young  county,  Tex, 


Shelbyvilla 
Lakewood,  111. 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

Shelbyvilla 

Kansaa 

Kansas. 

Shelbyvilla 
Hornet,  Mo. 
Mattoon,  111, 


Pana,  I1L 
Shelbyvilla 


Bushnell,  111. 
Shelby  County, 


Souer  City,  Minn. 
Taylorville,  111. 


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SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


FEMALE  DEPARTMENT. 


SCIENTIFIC  AND  CLASSICAL. 


NAMES. 

Telithe  C.  Anderson,* 
MoUie  H.  Basye,  (Walker) 
Mary  J.  Bruster,   (Durkee) 
Victoria  Cutler,  (Campbell ) 
lone  Gregory, 
Esther  Guilford,  (Davis) 
Ella  A.  Hall, 
Eliza  Huber,  (Bell) 
Mary  E.  McCracken,  (Garvin) 
Julia  A.  Matkin, 
Emma  E.  McMorris,  (Craig) 
Kate  H.  Smith,  (Thornton) 
Olivia  F.  Smith,  (Craighead) 
Maria  N.  Smith,  (Chafee) 
Mary  C.  Wells, 


RESIDENCE. 

Chester. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Vandalia. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

Aududon. 
Prairie  Bird. 
Hopkinsville,  Ky. 
Shelbyville. 

do 
Centralia. 


Belle  Basye, 

Amanda  Bell,  (Thornton) 
Ann  E.  Bivins,  (Sheley) 
Belle  Catlin,* 
Mary  A.  Cutler, 
Sina  Cutler,  (Billiard) 
Helen  E.  Frazier,  (Dill) 
Martha  A.  Graham,  (Brown) 
Rachel  E.  Haydon, 
Ella  Headen,  (Woodward) 
Lucy  E.  Jones,  (Walton) 
Fannie  Moulton,  (Dodd) 
PedrillaP.  Parish   (Pfeiffer) 
Anna  L.  Preutiss, 
Laura  E.  Roberts,  (Shade) 
Martha  A.  Roberts, 
Mary  A.  Roberts,  (Parker) 
Martha  Selby,  (Filio) 
Eliza  Tremble, 
Mary  E.  Williams,  (Henry) 


Amanda  Albro* 
Jane  Albro,* 
Ellen  Armstrong, 
Sarah  Atkinson,  (Hardy) 
Rachel  Bell,  (Lantz) 
Josephine  Bivins,  (Austin) 
Eliza  Bruster,  (Mouser) 
Christiana  Couch, 
Ellen  L.  Couch,* 
Mary  Camp, 
Elizabeth  Casey, 
Octavia  Cutler, 
Margaret  Cutler,  (Lantz) 
Harriet  Cutler,  (Hopkins) 
Mildred  Dutton,  (Hawk) 
Ann  E.  Durban,  (Weakly) 
Frank  C.  Durban,  (Seaman) 
Christiana  Doyle,  (Haydon) 
Annie  Frazier, 


ACADEMICAL. 

Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

Berlin,  Wis. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  County. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Bedford,  Ky. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  County. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

do 

Mattoon. 
Williamsburgh. 

PREPARATORY. 

Shelbyville. 

dp 

Prairie  Bird. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Shelbville. 

do 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Moawequa. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

do 

Shelby  County. 
Shelbyville. 

do 

Shelbyville. 
Shelby  County. 


PRESENT  P.  O. 

Shelbyville. 


Shelbyville, 
Pana,  111. 


Shelbyville. 
do 

Shelbyville. 


Shelbyille. 
do 


Shelbyville. 
Hillsboro,  111. 

Shelbyville. 
Shelbyville. 
Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 
Los  Angelos,  Cal. 

Shelbyville. 
do 
do 


Hutchinson,  Kansas. 


Altoona,  Dakota. 
Terre  Haute,  Ind. 


Shelbyville. 
do 
do 

Shelbyville. 
do 


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63 


Lizzie  Fridley,* 

Luella  Gregory,* 

Melissa  M.  Garvin,*  (Roche) 

Mary  Guilford, 

Hannah  Hodgson, 


Shelby  County. 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 

do 


Martha  E  Headen*(Mcrianahan)Williamsburgh, 

Anna  Headen,  (Chew)  Shelbyville. 
Nannie  B.  Headen,  (Guilford)  do 

Isabel  D.  Laws,  (Malone)  Shelby-villa 
Eliza  Lantz,  (Couch)  do 

Hannah  Moulton,  (Hunt)  Bedford,  Ky. 

Sarah  C.  Miller,  Shelbyville. 

Sarah  J,  Oliver,  Shelbyvilla 
Matilda  E.  Pen  well,  do 

Mary  L.  Pen  well,  (Launey)  do 

Arabel  Poor,  (Woods)  Sullivan. 

Nancy  A.  Phillips,  Shelbyvilla 
Melvira  Phillips,  do 

Harriet  Phelps,  (Igo)  do 

Nancy  M.  Phelps,  do 

Matilda  Reed,  do 

Henrietta  Rice,*  do 

Sarah  Rice,  do 

Frances  Scovil,*  do 

Altona  Shellenberger,  (Austin)  Shelby  County. 

Mary  Selby,  Shelbyville. 

Elizabeth  South,  Shelby  County. 

Ann  Sim,  Shelby  County. 
Samantha  Sutton,  (Sturteyant)Shelby  ville. 
Lizzie  H.  Tackett,  (Hopkins)          do 
Catherine  M.  Tall  man,  (Beem)        do 


New  York  City. 
Shelbyville. 

Shelbyville. 

do 
Shelbyvilla 

Warsaw,  111, 


Savannah,  Ga. 


Belle  Woodward,  (Siles) 
Margaret  Winson,* 
Mary  Winson,* 
Eliza  Williams,* 
Lauribsa  Waggoner, 
Jane  E.  Wicks,*  (Reeves) 
Antonia  Wendling,*  (Lane) 
Mary  Wade,  (Howe) 


do 

Shelby  County. 
Shelby  County. 
Shelbyville. 
Shelby  County, 
Shelbyvilla 

do 

do 


Decatur.  111. 


Tower  Hill,  111. 
Dexter,  Mo. 
Shelbyville. 

do 
Chicago,  HI. 


CALENDAR 

The  Academical  Year  is  divided  into  two*  Terms  of  twenty  weeks  each. 
Fall  Session  opens  October  1,  and  closes  February  19th.  Summer  Session 
opens  March  2d,  and  closes  July  22d.  Spring  Vacation  lasts  two  weeks. 
Summer  Vacation  lasts  ten  weeks. 

EXAMINATIONS  AND  EXHIBITIONS. 

There  will  be  a  public  and  impartial  examination  of  the  various  classes 
at  the  close  of  each  Term,  and  the  Student  will  be  advanced  according  to 
his  or  her  proficiency. 

The  annual  exhibitions  occur  at  the  close  of  the  Fall  and  Winter 
Terms.  The  Semi- Annual  examination  for  the  session  will  occur  on  the  22d, 
23,  and  24  of  July,  proximo. 

MUSIC. 

The  important  branch  of  Instrumental  Music  has  been  taught  during 
the  last  Academical  year.  Through  the  liberality  and  kindness  of  a  few 
benevolent  friends,  the  Institution  has  been  furnished  with  an  excellent 
Piano-forte. 


64  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINAR?  MEMORIAL, 

LITERARY  SOCIETY. 

The  Plantonian  Literary  Society  offers  every  advantage  for  improve- 
ment in  discussion  and  literature.  The  meetings  are  held  weekly,  and  when 
the  student  is  prompt,  and  an  effort  is  put  forth  for  a  proper  performance, 
the  benefits  that  accrue  therefrom  are  numerous  and  very  perceptible. 

TEXT  BOOKS. 

All  the  necessary  Text  Books,  together  with  a  good  supply  of  station- 
ery, are  kept  at  the  stores  in  the  village. 

GENERAL  INFORMATION. 

Shelby  Academy  is  pleasantly  located  in  Shelby  ville,  Shelby  County, 
Illinois,  a  pleasant,  retired  and  healthy  village,  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Okaw 
river.  The  Terre  Haute  and  Alton  Eailroad  passes  immediately  through 
the  town,  thereby  rendering  access  easy  from  every  direction.  The  Semi- 
nary building  is  now  completed  and  furnished;  the  rooms  are  spacious,  well 
ventilated,  and  pre  both  pleasant  and  healthy.  The  building  is  large  and 
commodious,  affording  ample  accommodations  for  two  hundred  and  fifty 
students. 

It  is  the  aim  of  the  Teachers  to  instruct  thoroughly  those  committed  to 
their  care  in  every  branch  pursued. 

The  government  is  administrated  with  firmness  and  impartiality,  but 
without  harshness.  Its  chief  aim  is  the  prevention,  rather  than  the  punish- 
ment of  offenses.  Careful  attention  is  paid  to  the  comfort  and  morals  of 
students,  who  may  seek  instruction  within  the  walls  of  the  Institution. 

An  accurate  account  is  kept  of  the  delinquencies,  conduct,  scholarship 
and  attendance  of  every  student.  .  This  record  is  open  at  all  times  to  the 
inspection  of  both  parents  and  guardians. 

It  is  desirable  that  students  should  enter  at  the  opening  of  the  Term; 
but  they  will  be  received  at  any  period,  and  charged  from  the  time  of  their 
entrance. 

L — COMMON  ENGLISH. 

Reading,  McGuffie;  Orthography,  Webster;  Geography,  Mitchell  and 
Morse;  English  Grammar, Pinneo;  Mental  Arithmetic, Davies;  U.S. History, 
Mrs.  Willard;  Writing  Series,  Towndrows. 

II. — HIGHEE    ENGLISH. 

Ancient  and  Modern  History,  Goodrich;  Ancient  Geography,  Mitchell; 
Analysis  of  English  Language,  Pinneo;  Elementary  Physiology,  Mrs. 
Cutter;  Juvenile  Philosophy,  Comstock;  Botany,  Wood. 

III. — MATHEMATICS. 

Arithmetic,  Davies;  Algebra,  Davies;  Geometry,  Loomis;  Surveying  and 
Navigation,  Lcomis;  Trigonometry,  Loomis;  Analytical  Geometry  and 
Calculus,  Loomis. 

IV. — NATURAL   SCIENCE. 

Natural  Philosophy,  Draper:  Astronomy,  Mattisou;  Geology7,  Hitchcock; 
Physiology,  Cutter;  Chemistry,  Youman;  Natural  History,  Comstock; 
Meteorology,  Brocklesby;  Mineralogy.  Comstock. 


SflELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  65 

V. — MENTAL   AND   MOHAL   SCIENCE. 

Mental  Philosophy,  Upham;  Logic,  Hedge;  Rhetoric,  Quackeubos; 
Moral  Philosophy,  Wayland;  Natural  Theology,  and  Evidences  of  Chris- 
tianity, Paley. 

VI. — ANCIENT   LANGUAGES. 

Latin  Lessons,  Anthou;  Latin  Grammar,  Bullion;  Latin  Reader, 
Bullion;  Caesar,  Anthon;  Virgil,  Cooper;  Cicero,  Anthon;  Horace,  Anthon; 
Cicero  de  Officiis,  Thacher;  Greek  Grammar  and  Reader,  Bullion;  Anabasis, 
Owen. 

Exercises  in  Orthography,  Declamation  and  Composition,  regularly 
throughout  the  course. 

EXPENSES. 

Rates  of  Tuition  per  Term  of  Twenty  Weeks,  payable  at  the  close  of 
Session : 

Preparatory  Branches $  4 . 50 

Academical 5 . 50 

Scientific 8.00 

Classical 10.00 

Music  on  the  Piano,  including  use  of  Instrument,  extra ...   15 . 00 
Incidental  charges,  twenty-five  cents  per  scholar. 

BOAEDING. 

Good  Boarding  for  Students  can  be  secured  in  private  families,  at  $2.00 
to  $2.25  per  week.  Fuel  and  lights  furnished  without  extra  charge. 

APPARATUS,  PLATES,  ETC. 

The  nucleus  of  a  good  Chemical  and  Philosophical  Apparatus  has  been 
formed,  and  added  to  the  Seminary.  Complete  sets  of  beautiful  Anatom- 
ical Outline  Plates,  Chemical  Charts,  Geographical  Maps,  etc.,  having  been 
procured  for  the  use  of  the  Institution,  peculiar  inducements  are  offered  to 
Students  desiring  to  pursue  these  favorite  branches,  Philosophy,  Chemistry, 
Physiology,  &c. 

Many  thanks  are  due  the  kind  friends,  who  liberally  contributed 
towards  the  liquidation  of  the  indebtedness  for  the  Apparatus,  at  the  last 
Exhibitions. 


66  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

NAMES  OF  STUDENTS  AND  TEACHERS. 


NAMES  OF  TEACHERS  EMPLOYED  BY  C.  W.  JEROME  WHILE   PRINCIPAL  OF 
SHELBY  SEMINARY.-WHEN  APPOINTED  AND  WHEN  RESIGNED. 


For  my  name  and  memory, 

I  leave  it  to  men's  charitable  speeches. — BACON. 


Names  marked  thus:  f  belong  to  the  first  catalogue,  but  were  omitted 
in  copying  by  a  printer's  accident.     Those  marked  with  a  star  (*)  are  dead. 


Appointed. 

March, 

1854, 

it 

1854, 

October, 

1855, 

a 

1855, 

M 

1855, 

(I 

1855, 

March, 

1856, 

u 

1857, 

it 

1857, 

October, 

1857, 

M 

1857, 

Resigned. 


1857, 

1857, 
April,  1858, 

1858, 
September,   1858, 

1 

October, 
May,  1860, 

September,  1860, 
October,  1861, 

1861, 
September,  1865, 

1865, 

1865, 

1865, 

October,  1865, 
September,  1866, 
February,  1867, 
September,  1867, 

1868. 

1868, 

February,  1866, 
Between  '61 


Charles  W.  Jerome,  Principal. 

R.  M.  Bell,  Teacher, 

Rev.  C.  C.  Burroughs,  Teacher, 

Jaspe"f~L>4)outhit,  Teacher, 

C.  B.  Myers^sAssistant  Piipil. 

Miss  N/CTPh^ifeB^*  Instrumental  Music, 

Miss  Olivia  F.jSrnith,  Music, 

Rev.  A.  W.  Mace,  Teacher, 

Miss  A.  M.  Arnold.*  Instrumental  Music, 

Rev.  W,  B^i&stefc  Teacher, 

Miss  E.  A.  IMorrison,,  Instraniental  and 
Vod&l  Mtt^5^^"       ... 

Miss  Ann\E.  Rhodes,  Teacher, 

Miss  M.  (jfffnam,  Assistant  Pupil, 

Jacob TO.  Miller,  Assistant  Pupil, 

J.  A.  Roucdy,  Vocal  Music, 

Miss  Maggie  E.  Osbond,  Teacher, 

Miss  Bell  McGrinnis,*  Teacher, 
diss  Mary  J.  Osbond,  Teacher, 

P.  T.  Martin,  Teacher, 

Miss  Ada  Ward,*  Teacher, 

Miss  Ellen  Hall,  Teacher, 

Miss  Mattie  B.  Smith,  Teacher, 

C.  W.  Jerome,  Principal, 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Jerome,  Vocal  and  Instru- 
mental Music,        - 

Miss  Annabell  C.  Young,  Teacher,    - 

Miss  lone  S.  Daniels,  Teacher, 

P.  T.  Martin,  Teacher, 

Miss  Anna  Headen,  Teacher, 

Miss  Mattie  G.  Kerr,*  Teacher, 

James  M.  North,  Teacher, 

Miss  Mary  A.  Hall.  Teacher, 

Miss  O.  J.  Higby,  Teacher, 

Miss  Lou  M.  Mason,  Teacher, 

and  '65  Mr.  Jerome  was  in  the  army  three 


July, 


1855 
1856 
1857 
1856 

February,  1856 

July,     1856 

1857 

May,    1857 
July,    1858 

June,  1869 
July  1858 
February,  1858 
July,  1858 
1858 
1860 


May, 
July, 


June, 


1859 
1860 
1860 
1861 
1862 
1862 
1869 


1869 

Septemb'r,  1865 
June,  1866 
February,  1867 
June,  1869 

1868 

February,  1868 
January,  1869 

1869 

June  1869 

years. 


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Atkinson,  John* 
Austin,  Nathan  F.* 
Austin,  Geo.  W.* 
Amlin,  William 
Amlin,  Milo 
Atkinson,  Wm.  T. 
Austin,  John  S. 
Austin,  Win.  R. 
Aichele,  Adam 
Andes,  James  A. 
Austin,  Charles 
Aaron,  John  T. 
Allison,  William 
Bayse,  Newton* 
Bivins,  George  L.* 
Bivius,  Joseph* 
Bivius,  James 
Buel,  Linus  W. 
Burrows,  Thomas 
Burrows,  Jasper 
Brueter,  John  D. 
Bayse,  Edward 
Brown,  Edward 
Barrett,  Hardy  A. 
Bryant,  Samuel 
Baker,  Byron  P. 
Baker,  Edward  D.* 
Barker,  Wm.  M. 
Baker,  Merton  G. 
Bradley,  Simeon 
Berkey,  Charles 
Blackstone,  Thomas 
Buel,  Edwin* 
Burton,  Charles  T. 
Baines,  George 
Barrickman,  John 
Barringer,  James 
Bartscht,  Charley 
Bartscht,  Fred 
Burkett,  Henry 
Bartley,  Joseph 
Blackstone,  Daniel 
Brant,  Wayland 
Bruck,  Emanuel 
Brown,  Willie 
Ballet,  Christie 
Baker,  D.  Fletcher 
Ballet,  Jacob 
Brown,  Benjamin  F. 
Ballet,  Edward 
Bugh,  Charles 
Brownbeck,  Wm.  H. 
Bryant,  George 
Boaz,  Charles 
Bell,  John 
Bell,  Joseph 
Bayse,  Thomas 
Baird,  Ira 
Cox,  Newton 
Cheney,  Henry* 


NAMES  OF  STUDENTS. 

GENTLEMEN. 
Cutler,  James 
Collard,  Martin 
Cheney,  James  W. 
Couch,  Napoleon  B. 
Conrad,  Cyrus 
Collins,  John  T. 
Coiich,  George 
Cramer,  Sylvester 
Cutler,  Otway 
Collins,  Alonzo 
Carnahan,  William 
Carnahan,  Thomas 
Cotter,  John 
Chabin,  Abel  W. 
Cottlow,  Morris 
Conner,  William  P. 
Conrad,  John 
Cutler,  John  B. 
Chew,  William  R. 
Copelaud,  George 
Carroll,  David 
Carter,  John  A. 
Carroll,  James 
Cowgill,  John  W. 
Cowgill,  Joseph  B. 
Craddick,  Ambrose 
Cowgill,  George 
Cook,  G.  Wilbur 
Conant,  William 
Capps,  Edwin 
Cook,  AddisonE. 
Ca  lol  well,  Curtis 
Craig,  Lewis 
Craig,  Thomas 
Camfield,  Thomas 
Corley,  George 
Cramer,  John 
Cramer,  Wayne 
Campbell,  William 
Campbell,  Henry 
Cutler,  Aaron 
Dexter,  Charles  J. 
Dexter,  William  M.* 
Douthit,  Jasper  L. 
Davis,  Baalis  M. 
Durkee,  James  J. 
Davis,  James 
Dagan,  John 
Doyle,  Ephraim 
Doyle,  Joshua* 
Davis,  John* 
Dawdy,  William 
Dawdy,  Charles 
Dawdy,  Simon* 
Drennon,  John  W. 
Drennou,  Jerome* 
Dutton,  Abram 
Donaker,  Bruce 
Donaker,  Eugene 
Devlin,  Joseph  H.* 


Dutton,  Lee 
Day,  Charlie  B. 
Daisy,  Willie  B. 
Dennjng,  Tine  C.* 
Davis,  Joseph  W. 
Dilley,  Edward  G. 
Dilley,  Clarence  E.* 
Diamond,  Sewell* 
Day,  John 
Donnelly,  James* 
Dooly,  John  T. 
Davis,  Charles 
Douthit,  George  W.* 
Durkee,  Aphie 
Ditteuhover,  Alfred 
Dilley,  Fred 
Drew,  Norman  C. 
Earp,  William 
Ewing,  Thomas 
Eckard,  Monroe 
Eddy,  Wm.  J. 
Eddy,  John 
Ellis/Alfred 
Ellis,  Daniel* 
Ferguson,  Zimri* 
Fleming,  Wm.  F. 
Fisher,  Samuel 
Freybarger,  Alphonzo 
Fleming,  Peter 
Fleming,  Cornelius 
Freshwater,  William 
Frazier,  Thomas* 
Frazier,  Andrew* 
Fleming,  Douglas 
Frazier,  George 
Finkbine.  Fred  M. 
Fox,  John  F. 
Fouke,  Philo  W. 
French,  Samuel 
Frank,  John 
Gregory,  DeLeou* 
Guilford,  George* 
Gollagher,  Simon 
Groves,  John  M. 
Garner,  James* 
Garvin,  William 
Garner,  Nathan* 
Gwinn,  John  I. 
Guilford,  Marlow 
•Gehm,  Jacob* 
Guilford,  William 
Garvin,  George 
Graham,  Thomas  H. 
Guyon,  Alton  D.* 
Gregory,  Dudley  C. 
Gregory,  Ebbie 
Graham,  William* 
Gillette,  Edward 
Gomes,  Eddie 
Gearhart,.  Emerson* 


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Gilduff,  James 
Gilduff,  Michael 
Gaddis,  Leslie 
Higgins,  Jarues 
Haydon,  Frank  M.* 
Headen,  William  L. 
Horseman,  James  A.* 
Horseman,  Eli  J. 
Horseman,  William* 
Harris,  Edward 
Harris,  Theodore 
Harris,  James  B. 
Hefley,  Robert 
Harrison,  William 
Higgius,  Thomas 
Hodgson.  William 
Hatfield, 'William 
Holden,  Edwin 
Harris,  Perry 
Headen,  Walter  C. 
Hillsabeck,  James  A. 
Harding,  Joseph 
Herrick,  Tonie 
Horseman,  Thomas 
Haney,  Martin 
Horseman,  Charlie  D. 
Hall,  Charles  E.* 
Harding,  Fred  P. 
Hoy,  Simon  P. 
Huffer,  Jeremiah 
Harney,  David  M.* 
Harney,  A.  A. 
Hall,  W.  Wesley 
Harney,  Marshall* 
Henry,  Cassius  P.* 
Harkey,  George  M.* 
Hoffman,  John 
Hall,  John  J. 
Holding,  Callie  B. 
Holding,  Robert  S. 
Hunter,  William 
Hunter,  Andrew* 
Hall,  Charles  A. 
Hart,  Harrison 
Hays,  Calvin 
Huber,  Samuel  H. 
Hickman,  Charles  T. 
Hebel,  Jacob 
Head,  Charles 
Hilliard,  James 
Harwood,  Eber 
Holloway,  Thomas  T. 
Huffer,  George 
Harding,  John 
Hall,  Willis 
Hall,  Charles 
Homrighous,  John 
Homrighous,  Milo 
Housem,  Edward 
Housem,  George 
Isliam,  Charles 
Johnson,  A.  B. 


Johnson,  James  W. 
Jones,  Nelson  E.* 
James,  Joseph  F. 
Johnson,  Wesley 
Johnson,  Robert 
Jackson,  Moses 
Jarnagin,  Jasper 
Johnson,  John 
Jenkins,  Charles 
Jones,  Benjamin 
Johnson,  Solon 
Johnson,  Wesley  C. 
Johnson,  Le\i  H. 
Jackson,  James 
Jarnagin,  Frank 
Kellar,  John  J. 
Killam,  Wm.  E. 
Kelley,  Frank  W. 
Killam,  Peter  M. 
King,  Leonard 
Kellar,  Hiram  R. 
Keeler,  Henry  S.* 
Koster,  Joseph 
Kemp,  Jacob  H. 
Klauser,  Emanuel 
Kerr,  George 
Klauser,  Gottlieb 
Knight,  Cyrus 
Klarr,  Joseph  M. 
Killam,  John 
KelJar,  Martillus* 
Kellar,  Charles  E. 
Kline,  George 
Kelley,  Wm.  O. 
Kearney,  Charles 
Kleeman,  Samuel 
Keeler,  Clinton  DeWitt 
Kensil,  John 
Kensil,  Jacob 
Kleeman,  Morris 
Laws,  Charles  H. 
Lantz,  Charles  P. 
Lantz,  Isaac  S. 
Leach,  Edgar 
Larkin,  John  B. 
Livers,  James 
Leist,  Harrison 
Livers,  George  H.* 
Lump,  George 
Lovins,  Aaron  W. 
LovJns,  Wesley  C. 
Linder,  John  W. 
Lloyd,  Turner 
Lloyd,  Willis 
Lufkin,  Dudley 
Lowe,  Vincent  F. 
Lufkiu,  Harry 
Lufkin,  Frank 
McCracken,  Ephraini  A. 
Montgomery,  John 
Moyers,  Samuel 
Myers,  C.  Burkey* 


Miller,  James 
Matties,  John* 
Matties,  LaFayette 
Miller,  William 
Miller,  Jacob  C. 
Miller,  Dorris 
Murdock,  Charles 
McMorris,  Charles 
Moberly,  Franklin 
Murdock,  Edward 
Maxwell,  George 
Martin,  Luther  M. 
Martin,  Parkhurst  T. 
Martin,  Elgin  H. 
Monroe,  Norton* 
Martin,  Thaddeus  K.* 
Monroe,  Nelson 
Minto,  Thomas 
Minto,  Robert 
Miner,  William  R.* 
Me  Clintock,  Eugene* 
Middleton,  Green  R. 
Middletou,  Robert 
McKee,  Samuel 
Middleton,  Amos 
McMullen,  William  H.* 
Malone,  William 
McDowell,  Oliver  H. 
Millikin,  Charles  S.* 
Mootrie,  William* 
Malone,  John 
Morgan,  Thomas 
McComb,  Edward 
Martin,  Richard 
McKinney,  James 
McKibbeu,  James 
Middlesworth,  James 
Middlesworth,  Clinton 
Middleton,  Frank 
McClimans,  James 
Neil,  Nelson 
Nichols,  William 
Nichols,  William  J. 
Neil,  Wesley 
Oliver,  Joseph* 
Oliver,  William 
Oliver,  Anson  E.* 
Oiler,  S.  D. 
Oliver,  Asa 
Oliver,  Herbey* 
Oliver,  George 
Oliver,  Jerome 
Penwell,  Frank  W. 
Peuwell,  George  V. 
Patient,  William 
Ferryman,  Stephen 
Pritchard,  Charles 
Prentice,  William* 
Phelps,  John 
Prentice,  Owen  T.* 
Penwell,  Oscar 
Peuwell,  Meritt 


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Penwell,  Jonathan 
Prince,  Horace  C. 
Parker,  Lewis  H. 
Poteet,  Mark  M.* 
Peacock,  Adouijak* 
Peacock,  Joseph  A. 
Penwell,  Melvin 
Peters,  Alvin 
Peters,  Arthur 
Park,  Edward 
Probst,  Luther 
Pollard,  Andrew 
Penwell,  Charles 
Penwell,  DickJ. 
Penwell,  George 
Penwell,  Locke  C. 
Prentice,  Edward 
Probst,  Clarence 
Pugh,  William 
Page,  Robert 
Prince,  Ebbie 
Pedon,  Daniel 
Parish,  Henry  C. 
Ferryman,  Smith 
Roberts,  George  A. 
Reed,  John 
Roessler,  Andrew 
Roessler,  Phillip 
Renshaw,  Joseph 
Renshaw,  John 
Rhodes,  Amos  A. 
Rice,  George* 
Rice,  Lewis 
Roberts,  William 
Retilf,  Jacob 
Rhodes,  Jesse* 
Rodgers,  John 
Rodgers,  Joseph  E, 
Rodgers,  James  S. 
Rodgers,  Spencer  B. 
Rheinhart,  Fred 
Roberts,  John 
Rutherford,  Charles* 
Rutherford,  Wallace 
Reed,  Edward 
Reed,  John 
Reeves,  Samuel 
Reiss,  Ardie 
Reber,  George 
Roessler,  Julius 
Roessler,  Solomon 
Roberts,  Colly 
Storey,  Peyton  R. 
Selby,  James  B. 
Shaw,  Gabriel 
Sampson,  James 
Smith,  Wm.  L. 
Selby,  William  B.* 
Skinner,  Woolsie 
Selby,  Frank  W. 
Selby,  Benjamin  F. 
Sheeley,  Anson  W. 


Selby,  George 
Snyder,  Christopher 
Sim,  Richard* 
Sutton,  James  F. 
Spore,  William 
Spore,  Clarence 
Spore,  James 
Stables,  William 
Stables,  Fleming 
Smith,  Charles 
Smith,  Frank 
Stewart,  Thomas 
Suttou,  Henry* 
Schenck,  Edward  T.* 
Shank,  John 
Shank,  Joseph 
Silver,  Edward 
Stilgebower,  Henry 
Stilgebower,  Solomon 
Silver,  Barak 
Smith,  Daniel  B.* 
Smith,  Benjamin 
Smith,  Nicholas 
Stewart,  Eli 
Stumpf,  Fred 
Stotts,  Nathan 
Savior,  Edgar 
Sexsou,  Richard* 
Smith,  James 
Selby,  Amos 
Saylor,  Milton  P. 
Silver,  George  H. 
Steen,  Ernest  P. 
Scovil,  Charles 
Shuman,  Charles 
Sutton,  Lester 
Slocum,  Fred  H. 
Shutt,  Frank 
Scott,  Andrew 
Stillwell,  Frank 
Stewart,  Lucerne 
Stillwell,  Robert  T. 
Sumerlin,  Eugene* 
Sumerlin,  Adolph 
Sutler,  Charles 
Stilgebower,  Jacob 
Sill,  Alfred  B. 
Swinford,  John  W. 
Spurgeon,  Norton 
Snyder,  Adam 
Swart,  Charles  P. 
Trower,  John  E. 
Terry,  George 
Tackett,  George* 
Thornton,  Charles 
Thornton,  Albert* 
Tallman,  Cyrus 
Trimble,  David 
Templeton,  Fred 
Ticknor,  Charles  C. 
Ticknor,  Alanson* 
Thomas,  Elijah 


Travis,  Harvey* 
Tyson,  Joseph 
Tyson,  John 
Trimble,  John 
Tyson,  James 
Travis,  David  P. 
Tackett,  Edward 
Travis,  A.  J. 
Travis,  Byron 
Travis,  Horace 
Tyson,  Isaac 
Tyson,  Thomas 
Tackett,  Archie 
VauDyke,  Wilsie  A. 
VauDyke,  David 
Vosbury,  Anderson* 
Verner,  Mathew  J. 
Vandine,  James 
Vautreese,  Edward 
Ward,  William 
Wilson,  George  P. 
Woodward,  Nimrod 
Williams,  William  R. 
Williams,  Charles  B.* 
Williams,  John  A.* 
Wendliug,  George  R. 
Woodward,  Charles  S. 
Waggoner,  Fieldon  R. 
Winn,  Thomas 
Weeks,  James 
Weeks,  Edwin* 
Weer,  Henry 
Werner,  Jacob  L. 
Waggoner,  Alfred  A. 
Waggoner,  Wm.  H. 
Waggoner,  Ruel  D.* 
Winson,  John 
Warren,  Daniel 
Wakefield,  John 
Ward,  John 
Woodward,  Letton  S. 
Woolen,  John  M.* 
Walden,  Thomas 
Whitehead,  Byron 
Wheeler,  John 
Wendling,  Michael  B, 
Wendling,  George  R. 
Wendling,  William 
Warren,  Robert  B.* 
Wade,  William 
Wade,  Edward  T. 
Wetzel,  Jacob 
Wiuson,  Frank 
Warren,  Peter 
Walker,  William 
Williams,  Edwin 
Williamson,  Perry 
Williams,  Jesse 
West,  Joseph 
West,  Harrison 
Wilson,  Joseph 
Wilson,  Daniel 


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Worley,  Charles 
Williams,  Worth  A. 
Wakefi eld,  Charles 
Wright,  Henry  D. 
Wright,  Johu  D. 

Albro,  Amanda* 
Albror  Jane* 
Amlin,  Adeliza* 
Anderson,  Telitha  C* 
Atkinson,  Sarah 
Augeliu,  Mary 
Allen,  Maggie  C. 
Anderson,  Margaret 
Austin,  Martha  J. 
Armstrong    Ellen 
Augelin,  Lucinda 
Austin,  Nettie 
Bruster,  Mary  J.* 
Bruster,  Eliza  A. 
Beattie,  Mary  J. 
Beattie,  Annie* 
Bivins,  Ann  E. 
Basye,  Nannie* 
Basye,  Mollie 
Beattie,  Belle* 
Bivins,  Josephine 
Basye,  Belle* 
Bivins,  Martha 
Bell.  Rachel 
Brown,  Mary  J. 
Bivins,  Nannie* 
Brokaw,  Keturah 
Brightman,  Lovinia 
Brant,  Maria 
Bivius,  Louisa* 
Bivius,  Mary* 
Berkey,  Anna 
Baker,  Letitia 
Butler,  Rebecca 
Broomfield.  Margaret 
Bugh,  Mary 
Belknap,  Hattie 
Blosser,  Hattie* 
Blackstone,  Jane 
Beauchamp,  Sallie 
Beauchamp,  Emma 
Burr,  Ellen 
Babbitt,  Ellen 
Bryson,  Priscilla 
Buunell,  Alice 
Buck,  Anna* 
Betts,  Minnie* 
Brokaw,  Temperance 
Bailey.  Mary 
Boaz,  Nancy 
Bailey,  Jane 
Barrett,  Eliza 
Barbeau,  Lizzie 
Barrett.  Jennie 
Basye,  Anna 


Worley,  Thomas 
Wetzel,  FnuA* 
Webster,  Charles 
Warner,  Charles 

LADIES, 

Bivius,  Katie 
Bivius,  Hattie 
Bell,  Cora 
Barrett,  Zilpha 
Blackstone,  Lillie 
Blackstone,  Lina 
Blosser.  Emma 
Bugh,  Ida 
Cutler,  Maggie 
Cutler,  Hattie 
Catliu,  Belle 
Cutler,  Mary  A. 
Cutler,  Octavia 
Cutler,  Alice 
Canon,  Dora 
Collard,  Hester 
Cutler,  Sina  A.* 
Cutler,  Victoria* 
Casey,  Lizzie 
Cutler,  Margaret 
Cotich,  Christiana 
Cutler,  Lizzie 
Couch,  Ellen 
Conrad,  Melissa  t 
Cutler,  Lizzie 
Camp,  Mary 
Cutler,  Rosa 
Cramer,  Nettie 
Chew,  Hattie 
Conant,  Josie 
Copeland,  Rebecca 
Copeland,  Lizzie 
Cowgill,  Sarah  J. 
Clements,  Ella 
Cowgill,  Jennie 
Cook,  Lillie 
Cook,  Nettie 
Cheney,  Annie 
Corley,  Minerva 
Cooper,  Emmp 
Capps,  Katie 
Carroll,  Ella 
Carroll,  Mary 
Cramer,  Sarah 
Church,  Mary 
Corley,  Lizzie 
Canifield,  Sarah 
Durban,  Anna  E. 
Durkee,  Ann 
Davidson,  Paulina 
Davidson,  Lucy 
Downs,  Jeunie 
Doyle,  Lizzie 
Doyle,  Priscilla 
Durban,  Fannie 


Weyand,  Alfred 
Weakley,  Otho  T, 
Welborn,  Jonas 
Woodward,  Clarence 


Drennon,  Mattie 
Dutton,  Mildred 
Davidson,  Euphemia 
Dexter,  Lolo 
Dagau,  Lena 
Davis,  Julia 
Denning.  Carrie* 
Dutton,  Mary 
Demotte,  Lucy 
Dunham,  Olivia 
Day,  Mary 
Durkee,  Lizzie* 
Dreunon,  Lizzie 
Davis,  Stella 
Durkee,  Nettie 
Davis,  Mary 
Denning,  Emma 
Eversoll,  Laureua 
Earp,  Melissa  M. 
Ewing,  Rebecca 
Easterday,  Anna 
Espy,  Tommie 
Eddy,  Mary  A. 
Ellis,  Louisa 
Fisher,  Martha  E. 
Fisher,  Louisa  E. 
Fleming,  Samantha 
Fridley,  Lizzie* 
Frazier,  Helen 
Fish,  Julia 
Frazier,  Anna 
Feeley,  Rachel  B. 
Fearman.  Ellen 
Feeley,  Sarah 
Feeley,  Lizzie 
Finkbine,  Ann 
Francisco,  Charity 
Foreman,  Maggie 
Funk,  Minnie 
Funk,  Katie 
Fillio,  Tonie 
Fouke,  Minnie 
Fox,  Mary  E. 
Farley,  Mary 
Francisco,  Lizzie 
Fouke,  Gussia 
Fathergail,  Mattie 
French,  Ada 
Graham,  Mattie  A 
Guilford,  Esther 
Gregory,  lone 
Guilford,  Maria 
Gregory,  Luella* 
Graham,  Sarah  E. 
Guy,  Marie  E. 


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Guilford,  Libbie 
Gollagher,  Barbara* 
Garvin,  Lissa* 
Green,  Jane 
Groves,  Harriet 
Groves,  Lizzie 
Green,  Frances 
Graham,  Minnie  A. 
Groves,  Amanda 
Gregory,  Stella* 
Gans,  Minnie 
Graham,  Phenia 
Gollagher,  Minerva 
Gollagher,  Mattie 
Huber,  Eliza* 
Headen,  Ella  M. 
Headen,  Anna 
Higgins,  Harriet* 
Higgius,  Nancy  J. 
Huber,  Ellen 
Headen,  Nannie  B. 
Higgins,  Mary  A. 
Haydon,  Rachel* 
Hall,  Ella* 
Harmon,  Addie 
Harris,  Margaret 
Harrison,  Maggie 
Harris,  Eliza 
Headen,  Mattie 
Hodgson,  Hannah 
Higginbotham,  Anna 
Hart,  Lizzie 
Hall,  Dora  A. 
Harshy,  Emma 
Hebel,  Caroline 
Hebel,  Mary 
Hebel,  Carrie 
Harkey,  Clara 
Hall,  Nancy  J.* 
Holding,  Rachel 
Hall,  Maggie 
Harkey,  Alice 
Harnett,  Illinois  W. 
Haydon,  Mary 
Headen,  Lulu 
Harris,  Katie 
Henry,  Emma 
Hickman,  Mattie 
Hardy,  Allie* 
Horubeck,  Mary 
Hunt,  Ella 
Hunt,  Jane 
Hart,  Mary 
Headen,  Jennie* 
Hart,  Martha 
Hall,  Lutie 
Hannam'an,  Mary 
Harris,  Mattie 
Henry,  Addie 
Harding,  Annie 
Hardy,  Fannie 
Haydon,  Mary 


Hall,  Katie 
Harriett,  Eva 
Johnson,  Sarah  E. 
Jones,  Lucy  E. 
Jackson,  Artemisia* 
Jarnagau,  Mary 
Jones,  Helen 
Jackson,  Louisa 
Johnson,  Eva 
Jackson,  Josephine 
Jerome,  Mary  G. 
Johnson,  Margaret 
Johnson,  Carrie 
Jordan,  Mary 
Jolly,  May 
Jolly,  Lizzie 
Kensil,  Mary 
Knatz,  Annie 
Kiuney,  Katie 
Kellar,  Mary 
Kennedy,  Hannah 
Kelley,  Mary 
Kerr,  Lizzie* 
Kerr,  Caroline* 
Kellar,  Anna 
Kratz,  Elizabeth! 
Keeler,  Jennie 
Kline,  Mary 
Kelley,  Mary 
Kearney,  Louella 
Kellar,  Addie 
Keeler,  Cora 
Keeler,  Viola 
Laws,  Belle 
Lantz,  Eliza 
Lantz,  Mary 
Lloyd,  Emma 
Lazarus,  Tillie 
Livers,  Artelia 
Lufkin,  Lottie 
Lowe,  Susan 
Lowe,  Eva 
Lengs,  Ornah 
Levering,  Dora 
Munsell,  Mary  C. 
Munsell,  Emma 
Miller,  Sarah  J. 
Moulton,  Fannie 
Matties.  Martha 
McCracken,  Mary  E.* 
McMorris,  Emma  L. 
Moulton,  Hannah 
Middlesworth,  Isabel* 
McGullion,  Nancy 
Mitchel,  Maryt 
McDonald,  Ann 
Moore,  Adelia 
McGinnis,  Eugenia* 
Moberly,  Mary* 
Middlesworth,  Sarah 
Middlesworth,  Lizzie 
Middleton,  Victoria 


Merrifield,  Mary 
Murry,  Rebecca 
MeSherry,  Nancy 
McCliutoch,  Fidelia 
Marks,  Nellie 
Maxwell,  Ella 
McElroy,  Mary 
Malone,  Jennie 
Martin,  Julia  H. 
Matties,  Laura 
Martin,  Frances 
Martin,  Katie 
Murdock,  Belle 
McKibben,  Clara 
McKinuey  Mary 
Mills,  Clara 
McElroy,  Allie* 
Murdock,  Jennie 
Nabb,  Cynthia 
Nichols,  Sarah 
New,  Georgiana 
Oliver,  Eliza 
Oliver,  Sarah  J. 
Oliver,  Margery 
Oliver,  Sarah 
Oliver,  Emily 
Oliver,  Lulu 
Oliver,  Mary 
Oiler,  Olive 
Parish,  Diadema 
Phillips,  Nancy 
Phillips,  Melvira 
Parish,  Pedrilla  P. 
Prentiss,  Anna 
Pugh,  Caroline 
Pugh,  Mary  A. 
Poor,  Arabella 
Pen  well,  Helen* 
Pen  well,  Mary 
Phelps,  Harriet 
Purcell,  Mary 
Phelps,  Nancy 
Phillips,  Nancy  J, 
Perry  man,  Emeline 
Perryman.  Elizabeth 
Pen  well,  Susan 
Pugh,  Alice 
Pugh,  Belle 
Perryman,  Nancy 
Park,  Belle 
Park,  Jennie* 
Perryman,  Maryt 
Page,  Fannie* 
Park,  Fannie 
Park,  Alice 
Probst,  Carrie 
Pugh,  Nannie* 
Pugh,  Cynthia 
Prentiss,  Lizzie 
Price,  Carrie 
Purndl,  Amelia 
Patterson,  Emma 


72 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 


Parker,  Mollie 
Quick,  Mary 
Roberts,  Mary  A. 
Roberts,  Laura  E. 
Reed,  Sarah  E. 
Reese,  Mary*     . 
Reed,  Matilda 
Roberts,  Mattie  A. 
Rumsay,  Sarah  A.t 
Renshaw,  Lizzie 
Rice,  Henrietta* 
Rice,  Sarah 
Reed,  Talitha 
Rice,  Pollie  A. 
Reed,  Martha 
Rodgers,  Mahala 
Rutherford,  Helen 
Rodders,  Mary 
Reed,  Eliza 
Ribble,  Jennie 
Rutherford,  Laura 
Roland,  Jane  S.* 
Roland,  Ann 
Smith,  Rie  N. 
Stumpf,  Eliza* 
Stilgebower,  Katie 
Smith,  Lizzie 
Scroggins,  Barbara 
Scovil,  Frances 
Smith,  Olivia  F. 
Smith,  Kate  H. 
Selby,  Martha 
Selby,  Mary  E. 
Smith,  Lizzie  H. 
Sim,  Ann 
Stewart,  Sarahf 
Suttou,  Samantha 
Smith,  Clara 
Scovil,  Lavinia 
Stilgebower,  Barbara 
Sayers,  Eliza* 
Stuart,  Mattie 
Silver,  Emnia  G. 
Sayers,  Ellen* 
Smith,  Mattie  B. 
Sears,  Carlie 
Sackett,  Clara 
Sittler,  Mary 


Smith ,  Isabel 
Steen,  Jennie 
Smith,  Eliza 
Smith  Roxilla 
Scovil,  Alice 
Scovil,  Clara 
Silver,  BeUe 
Silver,  Hattie 
Surnerlin,  Lelia 
Scott,  Narcissus 
Shaw,  Ella 
Switzer,  Louisa 
Stewardson,  Mary 
Steen,  Mollie 
Swiuford,  Katie 
Sutton,  Jennie 
Swallow,  Anna  K.* 
Taff,  Sarah 
Tackett,  Lizzie 
Trimble,  Eliza 
Tallman,  Katie 
Tuttle,  Lizzie 
Thomas,  Nancy 
Ticknor,  Louisa 
Travis,  Emma 
Travis,  Fannie 
Thompson,  Lettie 
Tallman,  Jane 
Thornton,  Hannah 
Turney,  Louisa 
Ticknor,  Katie 
Tallman,  Alice 
Tackett,  Mattie 
Trower,  Mary 
Talbert,  Kate 
Travis,  Thirrissa  * 
Travis,  Alva 
Underwood,  Sarah 
Underwood,  Ellen 
Vandyke,  Celestia 
Venters,  Eliza 
Vandine,  Mary  J. 
Vandine,  Artemisia 
Williams.  Mary  A. 
Williams,  Lizzie 
Weudling,  Antonia* 
Woodward,  Mary  C.* 
Williams,  Eliza* 


WTuuenburg,  Julia 
Whm,  Sarah  J. 
Woodward,  Belle  P, 
Winson,  Mary* 
Wiuson,  Margaret 
VViun,  Mary  E. 
Weeks,  Jane  E.* 
Wells,  Mary 
Waggoner,  Laurissa  J. 
Watkiu,  Julia 
Walker,  Valeria 
Wade,  Mary 
Woolford,  Lizzie 
Wren,  Nannie 
Wade,  Mary  J. 
Wade,  Frances 
Wade,  Emma 
Wright,  Martha 
Wendliug,  Lizzie 
Wright,  Ada* 
Williams,  Charity 
Williams,  Frances 
Wright,  Myrtle 
Wright.  Gazelle 
Wade,  Clara  B. 
Wright,  Nancy 
Wright,  Dora 
West,  Annie 
Wilson,  Ellen 
Webster,  Talley 
Wetzel,  Lottie 
Ward,  Maggie  A.* 
Wright,  Nannie 
Williams,  Priscilla 
Woodward,  Emily 
Warren,  Cynthia 
Wright,  Mollie 
Webster,  Mary 
Weakley,  Celia 
Warriner,  Clara 
Wright,  Antonia 
Wade,  Alice 
Walden,  Sarepta 
Young,  Florence  A. 
Yost,  Alice  C.* 
Young,  Belle 


THEY  ARE  NOT  FOEGOTTEN. 

The  foregoing  list  of  names  are  given  as  furnished  by  Mr. 
Jerome.  This  list  includes  all  who  attended  the  school  during 
his  administration.  They  are  alphabetically  arranged  for  con- 
venient reference  and  are  printed  just  as  they  were  known  in 
school  days.  This  seems  most  appropriate  in  a  memorial  vol- 
ume, for  we  love  to  think  and  speak  of  our  old  school  mates 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  73 

and  pupils  by  the  same  names  we  knew  them  by  in  "the  dearie 
days  of  yore."  While  no  one  of  us  knew  all  those  names 
and  faces  together,  yet  every  name  in  the  above  list  will  be 
recognized  by  many  of  us  and  many  of  the  names  and  faces  are 
cherished  very  tenderly  in  memory  to  this  day.  If  the  story  of 
each,  might  be  told  it  would  be  varied  with  sunny  and  c?oudy 
weather,  with  smiles  and  tears.  We  should  like  to  know  and 
give  in  these  pages  a  bit  of  the  history  of  each  one ;  but  this  is 
impossible.  We  have  found  it  impossible  to  give  even  all  the 
changes  in  names  and  present  residences  of  all  the  teachers  and 
pupils — "old  Time"  makes  so  many  changes  in  this  mortal 
sphere  within  twenty  or  thirty  years.  We  have  attempted  in 
the  first  catalogue  to  give  married  name  of  females,  note  all 
deaths,  and  give  post-office  address  of  all  those  living;  but, 
finding  this  task  so  difficult,  in  the  time  we  had  to  spare  for  it, 
and  failing  to  complete  even  that  list,  we  have  concluded  not  to 
attempt  it  at  all  in  this  last  larger  list  which  includes  also  the 
iiBmes  of  the  first  catalogue.  Each  one  who  reads  the  names 
may  supply  from  memory;  and  in  time  we  may  together 
renew  old  acquaintance.  Let  each  believe  that  she  or  he  is  not 
forgotten,  but  only  missed, — lost  in  the  wide,  wide  world  and 
multitude  of  years,  until  the  final  meeting  by  and  by. 

Of  the  students  who  were  enrolled  under  those  who  held 
the  principalship  during  Mr.  Jerome's  absence  we  have  tried 
hard  but  failed  to  get  any  reliable  record. 

From  first  to  last  there  were  enrolled  in  the  school  under 
Mr.  Jerome,  1062  pupils,  many  of  whom  have  become  noble 
and  distinguished  men  and  woman.  More  than  three  hundred 
'have  ''gone  on  before."  During  the  late  war  over  eighty  were 
in  the  Federal  army,  and  two  in  the  Confederate.  Seventeen 
were  killed  in  battle,  or  died  in  hospital  or  camp,  and  two 
starved  at  Andersonville ;  three  were  drowned,  two  assassinated 
and  one  burned.  Among  those  living  are  to  be  found  ministers 
physicians,  lawyers,  journalists  and  teachers  not  a  few,  to  say 
nothing  of  many  others  holding  positions  of  honor  and  trust, — 
a  host  of  enterprising  men  and  women. 


74  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

Those  who  have  consented  to  be  presented  in  these  pages 
by  likeness  and  life  sketch,  have  done  so  for  the  sake  of  gratifying 
dear  old  teachers,  pupils  or  schoolmates  and  friends,  and  thus 
do  their  pait  to  add  interest  to  the  volume  and  make 
it  more  of  what  each  possessor  of  a  copy  would  like  it  to  be, 
namely:  a  sort  of  picture  gallery  and  pleasant  reminder  of  once 
familiar  faces. 

Yes,  we  should  eagerly  look  at  the  picture  of  every  face 
and  read  every  life  story.  But  this  cannot  be  in  this  world; 
and,  considering  the  difficulties  in  securing  the  few  portraits 
and  sketches  we  have,  we  trust  the  reader  will  not  be  too  much 
disappointed  that  there  are  not  more  pictures  and  completer 
biographies. 


-mm-. 


CKOlidE  A'.  WEJfDLING. 


SKETCHES  OF  SOME  OF  THE  TEACHEES 
AND  STUDENTS. 


Our  lives  are  albums  written  through 

With  good  or  ill,  with  false  or  true.  -WHITTIER. 


CHAELES  W.  JEEOME. 

What  greater  or  better  gift  can  we  offer  the  republic 
than  to  teaoh  and  instruct  our  youth. — CICERO. 

Teaching  is  one  of  the  highest  and  most  important  of 
human  occupations.  It  is  the  sight  of  truth  which  awak- 
ens the  human  soul,  rouses  its  activities,  and  constitutes 
the  principle  of  human  progress.  The  respect  paid  to 
teachers  in  any  community  is  a  measure  of  the  intelligence 
of  that  community. — Late  sermon  by  Dr.  James  Freeman 
Clarke. 

President  Eliot  of  Harvard  University,  in  a  paper  on 
education,  some  time  ago,  remarked  of  a  certain  teacher 
that  he  was  never  regarded  as  very  successful  as  an  in- 
structor of  some  branches  of  technical  knowledge,  he  may 
have  not  been  an  expert  in  some  of  the  improved  methods 
of  instruction,  but  none  of  his  pupils  will  e'ver  forget  the 
unaffected  reverence  with  which  he  repeated  the  Lord's 
Prayer  with  them  every  morning.  "It  may  be,"  says  this 
learned  president,  "that  the -spirit  of  reverence  which 
those  pupils  caught  from  that  teacher  has  had  a  much 
better  influence  upon  their  lives  than  all  the  science 
which  he  failed  to  teach  them  would  have  done." 

Technical  knowledge  of  books  and  things  is  not  the 
highest,  best  knowledge;  knowledge  is  not  virtue;  it  is  not 
necessarily  good  character  and  right  conduct,  in  short  it 
is  not  spirit  and  life,  and  it  requires  these  to  give  the  good 
example  that  is  as  much  better  than  precept  as  the  life 
ot  Christ  was  better  than  the  mere  letter  of  the  law. 


76  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

There  is  an  unconscious  influence  going  out  constantly 
from  the  spirit  and  life  ot  a  teacher  that  impresses  his  or 
her  pupils,  independently  of  the  will,  and  teaches  them 
worse  or  better  than  all  the  science  and  art  that  they  may 
learn.  We  really  influence  those  about  us  with  what  we 
actually  ARE,  in  intent,  inhabit,  in  spirit,  and  in  daily  life. 
If  a  teacher  has  an  impure  heart,  an  unclean  tongue  or 
bad  habits,  God  in  heaven  only  knows  the  hurtful  shad- 
ows he  may  cast  over  the  future  life  of  his  pupils;  but  if, 
on  the  contrary,  he  breathes  a  true  spirit  and  shows  him- 
self free  from  bad  habits,  the  shadows  he  casts  over  the 
lives  of  his  pupils  are  like  the  healthful  shade  of  the  tree 
whose  leaves  are  for  the  healing  of  nations. 

In  fact  the  teachers  who  have  cast  healing  rather 
thau  hurting  shadows  upon  me,  the  teachers  who  have 
taught  me  most  how  to  show  myself  a  man  and  helped 
me  to  make  the  most  of  life  have  been  those  who  breathed 
a  spirit  of  true  reverence.  The  one  teacher,  so  far  as  I 
know,  that  did  more  to  influence  my  life  for  good  than  all 
others,  my  mother  and  father  of  course  excepted,  was  a 
man  of  genuine  piety;  he  prayed  for  me  and  with  me  and 
gave  me  a  friendly  hand  and  an  encouraging  word  when 
I  felt  most  the  need  of  them;  he  proved  by  his  courteous 
bearing  and  noble  example  that  his  morning  prayer  with 
his  pupils  meant  more  than  his  words  or  all  the  book 
knowledge  that  he  taught  could  express.  And  to-day 
that  I  am  not  more  a  slave  to  an  evil  master,  bound  to 
some  unclean  habit, — it  might  have  baen  the  habit  of 
smoking  or  chewing  that  which  the  Creator  never  made 
for  the  mouth  of  decent  men. — that  I  am  not  to-day  chain- 
ed to  such  habits  is  largely  to  the  credit  of  him,  who, 
while  pointing  me  to  that  city  into  which  no  unclean 
thing  enters,  did  himself  lead  the  way. — Extract  from  an 
old  sermon  by  one  of  C.  W.  Jerome's  early  pupils. 

Charles  Wesley  Jerome  was  born  in  Onondaga  county,  Xe\v 
York,  September  8,  1828.  His  father  was  from  the  state  of 
Connecticut  and  his  mother  was  from  the  Green  Mountains  of 
Vermont.  They  were  Puritanical,  somewhat,  in  their  ideas, 
and  he  was  brought  up  much  under  that  notion.  His  parents 
moved  to  the  state  of  Illinois  when  he  was  a  lad  of  six  sum- 
mers, and  here  he  has  lived  most  of  the  time  ever  since. 

He  attended  such  subscription  schools  as  were  held  in  the 
neighborhood — only  attending  about  three  or  four  months  in 
the  year.  Free  schools  were  not  in  existence  in  this  country 


'SHELBTVTLLE  SEMINAKY  MEMOBIAL.  77 

then.  He  lived  on  the  farm;  his  boyhood  was  spent  there 
His  parents  were  poor.  In  1848  he  went  to  McKendree  College 
and  by  his  own  efforts  and  hard  studying  he  graduated  there  in 
1852.  He  worked  for  his  tuition  and  board  and  came  out  in 
•debt — but  paid  all  up  after  he  came  to  teach  in  Shelbyville,  111, 
The  writer  of  this  sketch  has  heard  Mr.  Jerome  laugh  as  he 
told  how  he  used  to  repeat  over  and  over  again  to  himself  the 
conjugation  of  the  Latin,  "A/c,  /itcc,  hoc,  etc."  while  he  was  milk- 
ing the  cows  where  he  worked  nights  and  mornings  for  his 
board;  thus  he  laid  the  foundation  of  his  success  as  Professor 
of  Greek  and  Latin  to  the  tune  of  the  milk  pail,— one  among 
the  multitude  of  examples  of  men  who  have  in  youth  struggled 
through  poverty,  and  by  the  labor  of  their  own  hands  and 
with  good  habits,  by  grace  of  God,  have  achieved  high,  honor- 
able and  useful  position  in  lifa 

When  he  was  a  boy  of  sixteen  years  he  joined  the  Meth- 
odist church  at  Bethel  Gamp  Ground  in  Jersey  county,  Illinois. 
He  was  led  to  this  step  through  the  efforts  of  a  precious  and 
now  sainted  mother,  whose  memory  and  love  he  greatly  vener- 
ates to  this  day.  His  mother  died  in  1847  and  his  father  in 
1865.  His  father  was  a  Methodist  preacher  and  a  good  man. 

Immediately  after  graduation  in  1852,  he  was  called  to 
Danville  Seminary  as  first  assistant  teacher  in  that  institution. 
He  remained  there  a  year  and  a  half  and  was  then  appointed 
principal  of  Shelby  Seminary.  He  remained  at  the  head  of 
this  school  fifteen  years.  He  went  to  the  army  in  1862  and 
served  as  1st  Lieutenant  and  Regimental  Quarter  Master  for  three 
years  and  then  returned  to  teach  in  Shelbyville  again.  In  1869 
he  went  to  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  and  was  principal  of  Bedford 
Male  and  Female  Seminary,  and  in  1874  he  was  invited  to  a 
position  which  he  still  holds, — Professor  of  Latin  and  Registrar 
of  Southern  Illinois  State  Normal  University  at  Carbondale, 
111.  Mr.  Jerome  has  taught  in  but  four  places  in  all  his 
life;  and  during  all  his  active  labors  as  instructor  in  secular 
knowledge  he  has  been  an  enthusiastic  worker  in  the  Sunday 


78  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

school;  in  fact,  as  a  Sunday  school  organizer  and  worker  he 
has  few  superiors.  Prompt  at  his  duties  all  week,  the  Sabbath 
day  has  always  found  him  at  his  post  as  Sunday  school  superin- 
tendent and  as  a  worshipper  of  the  God  of  his  father  and 
mother. 

Mr.  Jerome  was  married  to  Miss  Eugenia  A.  Morrison, 
of  Delaware,  Ohio,  August  31,  1858.  By  this  marriage  there 
are  two  children,  Charles  M.,  now  eighteen  years  old  and  Carrie 
Olivia,  12  years  old. 

Whatever  his  defects  as  a  teacher  may  have  been,  C.  W. 
Jerome  has  nevertheless  borne  long  acquaintance  and  worn 
well  wherever  he  has  lived  and  taught.  The  record  of  these 
pages  is  an  enduring  witness  to  his  virtues  as  a  faithful  teacher, 
loving  friend  and  exemplary  Christian  gentleman.  He  is 
known  as  a  man  of  unusual  strength  of  character  and  un- 
bounded enthusiasm.  As  Principal  of  Shelby  Seminary,  he 
had  the  insight  necessary  to  enable  him  in  his  work  to  secure 
for  the  most  part,  able  assistants,  and  the  ability  to  win  for 
them  and  himself  the  highest  esteem  and  confidence  of  his 
pupils.  He  is  thus  spoken  of  by  the  Hon.  Geo.  R.  Wendling: 
"As  an  instructor  and  disciplinarian  he  was  without  a  superior. 
No  teacher  ever  met  with  more  invariable  success  in  winning 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  pupils,  without  which  no 
teacher  can  influence  for  good  those  in  his  care.  Many  of  those 
who  fifteen  or  twenty-five  years  ago,  were  led  by  his  kind  hand 
with  almost  paternal  care  along  the  troubled  paths  that  must  be 
trodden  by  all  youthful  beginners,  remember  now,  amid  the 
duties  of  active  life,  the  influence  for  good  he  wielded  over 
them." 

In  conclusion  it  is  scarcely  too  much  to  say  that  to  Charles 
Wesley  Jerome  more  than  any  other  man  is  due  the  unusual  in- 
telligence of  this  community,  and  the  inspiration  which  has  led 
many  of  those  who  call  the  old  Seminary  Alma  Maier,  on  to 
the  best  and  highest  things  in  life. 

MRS.  EUGENIA  A.  M.  JEROME  was  born  in  Bath,  N.  H.,  June 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  79 

25,  1834.  Her  father  was  a  noted  physician.  There  were  five 
girls  and  three  sons  in  the  family.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  next  to  the  youngest.  She  spent  thirteen  years  of  her  life 
in  the  old  Granite  State,  went  to  school  in  New  York  and  began  to 
teach  school  in  Berea,  Ohio,  in  1852.  She  has  taught  in  Tiffin, 
Ohio;  Conesus,  New  York;  Moore's  Hill,  Indiana;  Shelby ville, 
Illinois;  Bedford  Male  and  Female  Seminary,  Shelby  ville,  Ten- 
-nessee,  and  is  now  teaching  a  large  class  in  Carbondale,  Illinois. 
Mrs.  Jerome  is  a  woman  of  unusual  energy  and  marked  ability 
as  a  teacher  and  has  proved  a  valuable  helpmate  to  her  husband, 
in  the  home  and  the  school-room. 

CALEB  C.  BUEKOUGHS. 

Caleb  C.  Burroughs,  son  of  Joseph  and  Bebecca  Burroughs, 
was  born  June  5,  1829,  in  Prince  Frederick,  Calvert  county, 
Maryland.  His  parents  moved  from  Maryland  when  he  was  in 
his  eighth  year  of  age,  and  settled  in  Madison  county,  Illinois 
in  July,  1837,  and  lived  for  a  few  months  in  a  log  cabin. 

After  spending  a  season  here  his  father  bought  a  farm  near 
Edwardsville,  the  county  seat.  Here  he  lived  working  through 
the  spring,  summer  and  fall  and  going  to  school  from  two 
and  a  half  to  three  months  in  the  winter,  till  he  was  twenty-one, 
when  he  was  sent  to  what  was  then  considered  a  school  of  high 
grade,  in  Edwardsville.  Then  being  inspired  with  higher  as- 
pirations, his  parents  sent  him  to  McKendree  college,  Lebanon, 
Illinois,  where  he  took  a  scientific  course  and  graduated  at  the 
end  of  three  years, — teaching  each  vacation  and  in  this  way 
helping  his  parents  pay  his  expenses.  Inthe  fall  of  1854,  after 
he  had  finished  his  course  at  McKendree,  he  was  engaged  to 
teach  as  Preceptor  in  the  Scientific  Department  of  Shelby  Sem- 
inary, and  in  the  fall  of  1856,  Mr.  Jerome  and  he  started  in  the 
book  business  in  Decatur,  Illinois;  Mr.  Jerome  remaining  only 
a  short  time  and  Mr.  Burroughs  continuing.  In  the  book 
business  he  succeeded  quite  well,  and,  at  the  end  of  seven  years 
when  he  sold  out  to  engage  in  other  business,  was  worth,  in 
round  numbers,  $20,000.00.  He  then  engaged  in  the  business 


80  SHELBYV1LLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL, 

in  which  he  is  now  employed,  the  Union  Iron  Works  at  Decatur 
111.,  associating  with  him,  Mr.  James  .Millikin,  a  wealthy  banker 
of  Kansas  City,  Mo.  For  eighteen  years  he  was  general  man- 
ager and  president  of  these  Works  and  Company.  His  health 
failing  because  of  incessant  lalx>rs  in  Decatur,  he  was  relieved 
from  duty,,  somewhat,  and  went  to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  to  look 
after  the  interest  of  the  company  in  the  west,  and  has  lived 
there  since,  greatly  improved  in  health. 

He  has  always  been  a  faithful  Sunday  school  worker. 
Soon  after  he  went  to  Decatur  and  engaged  in  the  book 
business  he  was  elected  superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Sun- 
day school  which  position  he  held  for  thirteen  years.  When  he 
took  charge  of  the  school  there  were  about  one  hundred  in 
attendance  and  the  interest  increased  until  there  were  over  six: 
hundred  attending, 

Mr.  Burroughs  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy  J.  Phillips 
soon  after  engaging  in  business  in  Decatur.  She  was  one  of 
the  first  teachers  of  music  in  the  Seminary  and  an  excellent 
woman.  She  was  a  kind  helpmate  until  she  passed  away  from 
earth  a  few  years  since. 

He  was  converted  at  a  Presbyterian  camp-meeting  when  he 
was  thirteen  years  old,  and  the  first  chance  that  was  offered  he 
joined  the  M.  E.  Church  and  in  that  church  he  has  lived  and  an 
it  he  expects  to  die  and  go  home  to  Heaven  singing  Methodist 
songs. 

Those  who  were  pupils  of  Mr.  Burroughs  in  Shelby  ville 
will  ever  remember  him  as  one  of  the  faithful  three  who  took 
their  turn  daily  in  that  upper  room  at  those  morning  prayers 
which  still  linger  with  us  as  precious  benedictions.  May  the 
influence  of  those  prayers  help  us  along  life's  road  until  we 
meet  at  last  in  the  many  mansions  of  our  Heavenly  Father ! 
ROBERT  M.  BELL. 

Robert  M.  Bell  was  born,  August  16,  1832,  near  Brighton, 
Macoupin  county,  Illinois.  His  parents  were  Jeremiah  and  Mary 
Bell.  He  \vas  converted  and  joined  the  M.  E.  Church  Sept- 


SHELBYYILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  81 

tember,  5,  1843.  When  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  his  father 
placed  him  in  McKendree  College,  but  he  did  not  graluate.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  began  teaching.  In  the  fall  of  1853  he  was 
connected  with  the  Danville,  (Illinois)  Seminary.  In  March 
1854  he  was  assistant  to  Prof.  C.  W.  Jerome  in  Shelby  Seminary. 
In  the  fall  of  1855  he  went  to  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  and  pursued 
some  studies  in  the  Illinois  College  under  Prof.  Sturtevant. 
The  next  year  he  was  principal  in  the  public  school  at  Edwards- 
ville,  Illinois.  At  the  close  of  that  school  he  began  farming  on  his 
father's  farm  near  Brighton,  Illinois.  Near  the  close  of  the  war 
he  decided  to  make  the  rearing  and  breeding  of  Spanish  Merino 
sheep  a  specialty.  To  this  he  gave  his  best  efforts  as  a  practical 
handler  of  sheep  and  wool  as  well  as  a  writer  and  critic  in  these 
matters. 

Mr.  Bell  has  earned  quite  a  fame  as  a  sheep  grower  and  a 
writer  on  live  stock,  generally.  In  the  wool-growing  interests 
he  has  visited  Vermont,  the  Canadas,  and  in  the  West,  Col- 
orado and  several  times  to  California,  also  Nevad?,  New  Mexico 
and  Texas.  He  has  sold  thousands  of  sheep  in  the  West  and 
South.  His  reputation  in  this  line  is  more  than  national.  In 
England  he  has  been  accounted  an  expert,  and  his  articles  in 
American  stock  journals  have  been  copied  in  England.  For 
many  years  he  was  editor  of  the  sheep  department  of  the 
Rural  World  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Eliza  Huber  of  Shelby- 
ville,  111.,  February  4,  1858,  by  whom  he  was  blessed  with  five 
children.  Miss  Huber  will  be  remembered  as  one  of  the  first 
pupils  and  afterward  one  of  the  teachers  in  the  Seminary.  She 
was,  as  a  pupil  and  schoolmate,  beloved  by  all,  and  as  a  teacher 
and  woman  she  was  greatly  admired  for  her  many  noble  quali- 
ties. On  April  17,  1877,  this  true  wife  and  loving  mother  was 
called  up  higher. 

On  Christmas  day,  1878,  Mr.  Bell  was  married  to  Miss 
Frances  Langworthy  of  Princeton,  111.,  and  in  May  1882,  he  em- 
igrated to  Shannon  county,  Mo.,  near  Somerville,  Texas  county, 


82  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

and  here  he  has  the  reputation  of  running  a  sheep  ranch  on  the 
Ozark  Mountains. 

Pleasant  are  our  memories  of  this  one  of  the  first  three 
teachers  of  what  was  then  called  "Shelby  Academy." 

JASPEE  L.  DOUTHIT. 

BY    GEORGE    K.    WENDLING. 

A  mere  etching,  omitting  many  of  the  bright  lights  and 
dark  shadows,  is  all  the  narrow  space  assigned  me  will  permit, 
as  I  attempt  to  very  briefly  sketch  in  barest  outline,  Jasper 
Douthit's  life  and  doings.  Hands  more  deft,  but  none  warmer 
with  hearty  sympathy  for  the  subject  matter,  could  be  found; 
and  so  I  turn  with  pleasure  to  write  here  lines  for  the  pages  of 
our  Seminary  Memorial. 

I  asked  him  the  other  day  to  give  me  the  year  of  his  birth 
and  a  few  data  concerning  his  school  days,  his  marriage,  and 
his  ministry.  I  thought  that  I  perhaps  could  here  go  on  and 
fill  the  canvas  from  my  own  knowledge  of  his  career.  But  his 
reply  to  my  request  is  so  simple  as  it  lies  before  me  now,  the 
merest  scrawl,  so  homely,  like  his  own  gig  in  which  we  often  see 
him  doing  his  mission  work,  so  unpretentious  like  his 
work  itself,  and  withal  so  manly,  that  I  shall  surely  put  aside 
my  own  poor  brush  and  colorings  and  let  him  draw  his  own 
picture — all  the  more  life-like  because  he  never  dreamed  that 
I  would  send  it  to  the  printer.  To  me,  who  knows  so  much  of 
what  he  barely  hints  at,  there  is  as  much  pathos  in  Jasper's 
simple  story  as  in  one  of  Dicken's  master  pieces. 

I  was  born  four  miles  from  Shelbyville,  Illinois,  October  10, 
1834;— raised  to  hard  work  on  a  farm;- -went  to  school  winters 
about  nine  months  altogether; — left  home  against  my  fathers 
will  in  eager  search  of  an  education; — attended  the  first  day  the 
Seminary  opened  at  the  old  Methodist  church; — swept  floor 
and  built  fires  to  pay  tuition  and  worked  nights  and  mornings 
for  my  board  till  I  began  to  teach  in  the  primary  department; 
— left  the  Seminary  in  1856  and  went  to  Wabash  College  at 
Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  for  six  mouths; — boarded  myself 
while  here  and  lived  mostly  on  bread  and  baked  potatoes,  and 
stopped  because  of  failing  health; — always  puuy  from  birth 
and  inclined  to  suffer  from  nervous  prostration  and  have  not 
got  over  it  although  I  do  more  mental  \vork  every  year; — tried 


JASPER  L.  DOUTHIT. 


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the  drug  business  and  failed  in  1857,  about  a  month  after  being 
married  to  Miss  Emily  Lovell  of  Abiugton,  Mass,  by  whom  am 
father  of  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters — circle  un- 
broken and  ail  at  home.  My  parents  were  Hardshell  Baptists, 
but  I  worshipped  with  the  Methodists  after  going  to  the  Semi- 
.nary  until  1862  when  I  made  the  acquaintance  of  and  was 
ordained  to  preach  by  the  Unitarians.  In  18(34  I  entered  The- 
ological School  at  Meadville,  Pa.,  and  graduated  three  years 
later;— preached  a  while  at  Princeton,  Illinois,  and  then  begun 
missionary  work  in  Shelby  county,  Illinois  where  I  have  labor- 
ed ever  since  1867  to  do  all  the  good  I  can  to  everybody  I  can. 
Must  regret  that  I  have  not  done  more.  You  know  the  rest.  But 
I  beg  you,  my  brother,  make  it  brief  and  simple.  I  only  want 
credit  for  good  motives  through  life's  battle  so  far;  but  candidly 
I  don't  feel  that  I  deserve  any  praise. 

Yes,  many  of  us  "know  the  rest."  And  that  "rest"  means 
seventeen  years,  long  years,  since  1867,  of  self  sacrifice  and 
ceaseless  toil  in  sunlight  and  by  starlight,  and  upon  my  word  I 
do  believe  he  suffered  it  all  and  did  it  all  for  Christ's 
sake.  For  seventeen  years  this  sickly  sort  of  a  man  has  been 
a  poor  Unitarian  preacher  here  at  our  doors.  In  a  vague 
sort  of  a  way  many  good  people  thought  until  of  late  years  that 
Unitarianism  was  a  thing  not  quite  so  vulgar  as  Ingersollism 
but  every  whit  as  bad  as  Voltairism  and  not  nearly  so  comfort- 
ing a  thing  as  damnation  for  infants  and  a  sulphurous  hell  for 
adults.  And  so  Jasper  was  not  received  for  awhile  in  any  of 
our  orthodox  pulpits  on  Thanksgiving  days  and  such  like 
occasions.  I  used  to  think  in  those  days,  that  I  must  have  been 
a  coward  or  I  would  have  said  it  aloud,  that  just  that  sort  of 
orthodoxy  made  war  on  Christ,  Luther  and  Wesley.  This  poor 
Unitarian  heretic  went  his  quiet  way  as  I  saw  him  year  after 
year,  lived  down  a  senseless  prejudice  against  his  church, 
erected  a  beautiful  place  of  worship  in  our  town,  gathered  about 
him  a  large  congregation,  most  of  them  sadly  needing  the  in- 
fluence of  a  good  man  (almost  to  the  same  degree  as  other  con- 
gregations in  our  town)  and  now  has  a  splendid  Sunday-school, 
maintains  a  country  mission,  edits  a  pure  newspaper,  and  I  will 
testify  everywhere  that  his  whole  life  work  and  example  in  this 
county  has  been  an  evangel  of  peace,  temperance  and  purity. 


W  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

He  was  a  Republican  and  a  friend  to  the  negro.  God  bless  him 
for  this  latter  and  forgive  him  for  <he  former  thing;  he  believes 
in  Charming  and  calls  himself  a  Unitarian.  I  believe  in  the 
Apostles,  creed,  take  some  stock  in  the  Apostolic  succession,  and 
am  an  Episcopalian ;  he  was  for  Grant,  Hayes,  Garfield  and  St. 
John,  and  I  am  an  uncompromising  Democrat;  he  is  mildly 
heterodox  and  I  am  reasonably  otherwise;  but  taking  it  al- 
together, when  we  all  meet  at  judgment  day  to  answer  for  our 
deeds  as  Christians  and  as  citizens  I  think  I  would  like  "to  ex- 
change places  with  him.  It  is  the  life  we  lead,  my  brothers, 
more  than  the  isms  we  hang  to,  and  so  I  write  it  down  as  my 
calm  judgment  that  Jasper  Douthit,  by  his  pure,  self-sacrificing 
and  unostentatious  life,  has  furnished  a  better  example  of 
genuine  heroism  and  nobility  than  any  man  our  county  has 
given  birth  to.  Nor  should  these  things  be  unsaid  because  he 
may  hear  them.  A  good  man  is  entitled  to  the  approval  of  his 
God  and  of  his  fellow  men.  Only  let  us  be  caretul  that  the 
man's  deeds — not  his  professions  and  pretensions  but  his  deeds 
be  thus  approved. 

I  do  not  believe  in  the  popular  application  of  the  divine 
saying  about  a  prophet  being  without  honor  at  his  own  home. 
A  man's  neighbors  will  always  honor  whatever  of  excellence 
they  perceive  in  him.  But  nearness  of  view  destroys  that  per- 
spective which  alone  brings  out  into  proper  proportion  what 
we  may  call  far-reaching  qualities.  Hence,  go  away  from  home 
if  you  want  to  know  the  size  of  a  man  in  some  essential  things: 
possibly  on  the  principle  that  architectural  effect  can  be  better 
judged  if  you  walk  a  good  way  from  the  building:  or  it  may  be 
because  you  can  infer  the  height  of  a  tree  from  the  length  of 
its  shadow.  Let  me  then  record  what  some  wise  and  famous 
men  thijik  of  Jasper  Douthit,  men  who  are  at  the  front  in  the 
literature  and  thought  of  our  generation.  I  asked  the  cel- 
ebrated James  Freeman  Clarke  to  put  a  line  or  two  on  paper 
telling  what  he  thought  of  Mr.  Douthit  and  this  is  what  he 
gave  me: 


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I  have  long  known  and  honored  Mr.  Douthit  for  his  ardent 
devotion  to  the  cause  of  truth  and  to  the  work  of  Christ.  In  an 
age  when  zeal  is  apt  to  be  shallow,  and  liberality  tends  to  in- 
difference, it  is  refreshing  to  find  one  who  fully  believes  in 
rational  religion  and  mental  progress,  who  is  bound  by  no  fet- 
ters to  the  past,  and  who  yet  has  the  zeal  of  a  Xavier,  and  the 
devotion  to  his  work  of  the  most  self-denying  Apostles  of  the 
cross.  He  does  not  know  how  to  compromise,  he  must  say  his 
word  whether  men  hear  or  forbear,  and  so  his  future,  not  more 
than  his  past,  is  not  likely  to  be  a  path  of  flowers,  but  he  will 
have  the  inward  peace  which  comes  to  every  sincere  soul,  and  the 
cespect  of  all  honest  men. 

That  is  a  great  deal  for  a  thoughtful  and  careful  writer  like 
James  Freeman  Clarke  to  say  of  any  man.  Here  is  what  the 
genial  and  famous  Robert  Collyer  writes  me  from  New  York: 

I  think  your  friend  and  mine,  J.  L.  D.,  is  a  good 
illustration  of  a  truth  I  love  to  ponder,  that  there  are  "elect" 
men  always  for  the  time  and  place,  and  Jasper  was  such  a  man. 
He  was  needed,  very  sorely  needed,  and  he  came,  as  I  fhink  of 
him,  in  answer  to  the  need,  and  stays,  thank  God.  The  old 
Indian  chief  said  to  a  friend  of  mine  after  hearing  a  discourse, 
"You  have  done  well  if  you  don't  think  so," — and  that  is  proof 
to  me  of  Jasper's  election  to  be  the  man  he  is,  he  is  so  stricken 
with  the  sense  that  he  isn't  worth  his  salt  most  times. 

Edward  Everett  Hale,  the  eloquent  preacher  and  graceful 
author,  writes  from  Boston  and  says: 

You  must  know,  I  think,  how  a  visit  from  Mr.  Douthit  is 
always  welcomed  in  Boston.  He  is  gratefully  heard  in  all  our 
pulpits  and  we  wish  he  came  on  here  more  often.  His  eager 
and  hearty  interest  in  his  work  in  Illinois  has  been  the  only 
reason  why  a  speaker  so  eloquent  has  not  long  since  been 
transferred  here. 

More  of  the  same  sort  at  hand,  but  I  remember  now  that  Mr. 
Douthit  himself  is  editor  of  this  Memorial  Volume,  and  I  am 
sure,  from  what  I  know  of  the  man  that  if  I  re-produce  all  that 
testimony  he  will  cancel  his  agreement  with  me  to  publish  what 
I  write  about  him — an  agreement,  by  the  by,  of  my  exacting. 
But  what  is  written  is  written,  and  it  shall  go  into  the  Volume 
against  his  protest  if  needs  be,  for  the  best  that  could  be 
written  of  him  would  still  be  an  inadequate  tribute  to  the  best 
of  all  the  boys  our  dear  old  Seminary  sent  forth. 


86  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

A  GROUP  OF  SISTERS. 

One  of  the  first  teachers  in  Shelby  county  was  Addison 
Smith, — "May  his  tribe  increase."  He  was  a  native  of  Vermont 
and  a  graduate  of  Burlington  University;  he  started  the  first 
newspaper  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  helped  to  found  a  University 
at  Bloomington,  Indiana,  and  from  this  latter  place  he  came  to 
Shelbyville  about  the  year  1832.  Addison  Smith  received  much 
of  his  early  education  from  his  uncle,  Dudley  Chase,  who 
served  as  United  States  Senator  from  Vermont  for  twelve 
years.  Mr.  Smith  and  Chief  Justice  Salmon  P.  Chase  were 
first  cousins.  He  was  a  poor  man, — that  is,  poor  in  this  world's 
goods,  but  rich  in  inherited  and  acquired  virtues, — strictly  tem- 
perate, honest,  intelligent,  and  religious;  and  equally  so  was  his 
most  excellent  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Hicks,  one  of  the 
most  influential  families  of  Hopkinsville  Kentucky.  To  this 
noble  pair,  our  city  is  indebted  for  a  large  contribution  to  its  in- 
telligence, public  spirit  and  good  morals.  But  Mr.  Smith 
was  too  far  ahead  of  his  time  in  most  respects  to  have  his 
thought  and  work  fully  appreciated  in  his  day.  As  a 
schoolmaster  he  encountered  almost  incredible  prejudice. 
"  Why,"  they  said,  "that  man  is  crazy  (the  word  "cranky"  was 
not  then  in  use),  for  he  insists  that  the  world  is  round  instead 
of  flat."  This  objection  was  actually  made  fifty  years  ago  in 

• 

this  county  against  this  noble  man  and  excellent  school  teacher. 
Mr.  Smith  and  his  good  wife  were  very  domestic  and  de- 
voted to  their  children.  He  taught  them  himself  and  gathered 
them  around  the  hearth-stone  and  read  and  talked  with  them 
about  the  old  English  classics  and  the  Book  of  books.  Their 
family  consisted  of  one  son  and  six  daughters.  Every  one  of 
these  has  been  a  good  teacher  in  our  midst  in  more  ways  than 
one — a  teacher  by  the  example  of  pure  lives  as  well  as  by 
precept— although  the  son,  Col.  Dudley  Chase  Smith,  now  of 
Normal,  Illinois,  has  never  been  a  sch'oolm aster,  technically. 
The  daughters  have  every  one  taught  school,  more  or  less,  and 
in  Shelby  county.  The  two  eldest,  Lucia  (Mrs.  Lufkin)  and 


LIZ/IE  SMITH. 
MAKIA  N.  SMITH  (CHAFEE). 


OLIVIA  P.  SMITH  (CRAIGHEAD). 

KATE  H.  SMITH  (THORNTON). 


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Sarah  J.  (  Mrs.  Dexter)  were  among  the  first,  if  not  the  fhst, 
females  who  taught  in  the  rural  districts  of  this  county.  The 
writer  of  this  sketch  must  revere  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Dexter 
for  teaching  him,  in  a  little  log  school  house,  nearly  all  he  knew 
of  books  until  he  was  grown.  That  was  at  least  forty 
years  ago  when  the  good  school  mistress  was  so  youthful 
that  on  the  first  morning  of  her  school  some  of  her  pupils  at 
first  sight  mistook  her  for  a  young  pupil.  The  flood  of  yeais 
have  carried  away  from  earth  the  father,  mother  and  this 
daughter;  but  they  all  still  live  in  the  memory  of  those  whom 
their  lives  have  blessed, — they  still  live  also  in  the  faces,  graces 
and  virtues  of  their  surviving  children.  All  of  these  children 
but  the  three  oldest  daughters  are  natives  of  this  county. 

The  four  sisters  that  we  are  permitted  to  present  in  a 
group  for  this  Memorial  are  too  well  known  to  most  of  the 
students  and  teachers  of  Shelby  Seminary  to  require  any  intro- 
duction. 

Miss  LIZZIE  SMITH  is  still  living,  the  same  cheerful,  youth- 
ful, quiet  and  even  tempered  lady  she  was  twenty-five  years 
ago.  She  spends  her  days  in  a  life  retired  from  much  of  the 
noisy  world,  but  scattering  sunshine  in  the  homes  of  her 
brothers  and  sisters. 

Miss  KATE  H.  SMITH,  after  graduating  with  high  honors  at 
Glendale  Female  College,  Ohio,  taught  there  during  the 
years  of  1857  and  1858.  She  also  taught  in  Jacksonville,  Illi- 
nois, Female  College  and  at  St.  Agnes  Hall,  Terre  Haute,  In- 
diana. She  was  associated  in  teaching  with  Rev.  Mr.  Pollock 
in  Shelby  Seminary  during  the  year  1865  and  in  Okaw  Seminary 
in  1866.  In  August,  of  this  latter  year  she  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Hon.  Anthony  Thornton.  She  is  mother  of  two 
children,  a  son  and  daughter,  and  now  lives  a  domestic  life  in 
this  city  of  her  nativity,  happy  in  the  simple,  but  high,  duties 
of  wife,  mother  and  Christian  neighbor. 

Miss  OLIVIA  P.  SMITH,  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  best 
•  music  teachers  of  Shelby  Seminary  and  one  we  all  love  to  re- 


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member  kindly.  After  graduating  at  Glendale  Female  College, 
she  went  to  Paris,  Illinois,  to  teach  music  and  there  she  w;is 
united  in  marriage  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  to  Sheridan  P. 
Reed,  a  lawyer  of  ihat  place,  who  commanded  a  Regiment 
and  was  killed  in  the  first  engagement  at  the  Battle  of  Stone 
River,  in  1862.  In  1868  she  was  married  to  John  P.  Craig- 
head  of  New  York  City.  She  has  one  son  who  graduated 
at  Harvard  University  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  and  who  is  now 
married  and  traveling  in  Europe,  and  one  daughter  who  is  the 
wife  of  a  Congregational  minister  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 
Mrs.  Craighead's  home  with  her  husband  is  now  in  Jersey  City. 

Miss  MARIA  X.  SMITH,  the  youngest  of  the  four  sisters, 
finished  her  school  years  at  Glendale  Female  College,  Ohio. 
She  was  thereupon  promoted  to  teacher  of  music  in  h&cAlma 
Mater,  which  was  a  high  honor — as  that  school  was  and  is  justly 
famed  for  its  music.  She  afterwards  taught  music  in  the  Ohio 
Female  College  at  College  Hill,  also  in  Illinois  Normal  Univer- 
sity at  Normal.  She  was  married  to  Hon.  George  D.  Chafee, 
one  of  our  foremost  lawyers,  in  1868;  and  here,  in  Shelby ville, 
Illinois,  she  resides,  blessed  with  two  sons  and  two  daughters, 
busy  as  house-wife  and  mother,  and  ready  to  lend  her  musical 
voice  and  her  hands  to  every  needy  and  worthy  cause  of 
charity,  temperance  and  religion. 

As  we  think  of  that  noble  father  and  mother,  struggling 
against  poverty,  but  diligently  training  their  children  to  habits 
of  industry  and  virtue,  and  then  reflect  how  these  children  have 
risen  up  to  bless  the  memory  of  their  parents,  we  can  but  ex- 
claim: Behold  how  far  sweet,  pure  lives  may  shine  into  a. 
naughty  world ! 

AY.  H.  WEBSTER. 

W.  H.  Webster  was  born  in  Schoharie  county,  N.  Y.,  Sept., 
'26,  1835.  At  an  early  age  he  removed  witli  his  father  to 
Wyoming  county,  where  he  attended  school,  learned  to  read, 
and  became  much  interested  in  reading  the  books  of  the  school 
library  in  the  district  where  he  lived.  Here,  when  he  was  nine 


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years  old  his  father  died,  and  his  mother  removing  to  Ohio,  died 
there  about  a  year  after  his  father.  Thereafter  his  home  was 
with  an  older  sister  until  her  death  which  occurred  at  Danville, 
Illinois,  when  he  was  about  thirteen  years  old.  From  this 
he  lived  among  strangers,  and  made  his  own  way  in  the  world. 
He  did  chores,  cut  wood,  hoed  gardens,  painted  houses,  and 
clerked  in  stores — anything  to  make  a  living— and  read  and 
studied  at  odd  times  as  he  could.  When  sixteen  years  of  age, 
he  began  to  attend  Danville  Seminary,  in  which  Prof.  C.  W. 
Jerome  was  then  teacher.  During  the  next  three  years  he 
attended  this  school  as  he  was  able  to  do,  being  compelled  to 
stay  out  a  large  part  of  the  time  and  work  or  teach  school,  to 
pay  expenses.  After  this  he  spent  two  years  in  Asbury  Univer- 
sity, Greencastle,  Indiana,  and  still  later  attended  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University,  where  he  graduated  in  the  classical  course 
in  the  year  1859.  He  had  meanwhile  taught  school  in  various 
places,  and  had  spent  one  school  year  as  teacher  in  old  Shelby 
Seminary,  then  in  charge  of  Prof.  C.  W.  Jerome.  He  had, 
when  about  fourteen  years  old,  united  with  the  M.  E.  Church, 
and  a  short  time  before  graduating,  had  been  licensed  to  preach. 

In  the  fall  of  1859  he  joined  the  Illinois  Conference,  and 
has  been  a  member  of  that  body  and  in  active  work  ever  since, 
except  one  year  when  he  retired  because  of  ill  health.  He 
has  been  pastor  of  ch arches  in  Champaign,  Urbana,  Decatur, 
Quincy,  Bloomington,  Springfield  and  Jacksonville,  and  presi- 
ding elder  on  Jacksonville,  Springfield  and  Danville  District. 

Mr.  Webster  is  a  man  of  marked  ability  as  pastor  and 
preacher.  He  has  usually  left  his  charges  stronger  than  when 
he  took  them  and  in  many  cases  greatly  augmented  the  mem- 
bership of  the  church.  All  who  knew  this  Christian  man  at 
Shelby  Seminary  have  grateful  recollections  of  his  faithful 
services  as  teacher  and  friend. 

In  1863  he  was  married  to  Augusta  Robinson  of  Danville, 
Illinois,  who  has  been  his  very  faithful  helpmate  through  life. 


90  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

PARKHURST  T.  MARTIN. 

Parkhurst  T.  Martin  was  born  in  the  village  of  Jersey, 
Licking  county,  Ohio,  March  1,  1838, — received  a  fair  common- 
school  education  in  the  village  district  school — came  to 
Illinois  in  1856  at  the  age  of  eighteen, — taught  a  common 
school  for  about  one  year  in  Macoupiii  county;  came  to 
Shelby ville  in  the  fall  of  1858;  attended  Shelby  Seminary 
about  one  year  as  a  pupil  and  taught  primary  department  of 
same  part  of  one  term  in  spring  of  1860.  In  the  fall  of  1860 
he  went  to  Marietta  College  intending  to  take  a  college  course, 
but  the  war  breaking  out  returned  home  and  joined  the  14th 
Illinois  Regiment  of  Infantry  and  served  as  a  private  soldier 
until  his  regiment  was  mustered  out  in  June  1864.  In 
February,  1865,  raised  a  new  company  under  last  call  for 
volunteers  and  with  his  company  was  assigned  to  duty  as  Captain 
of  Company  K,  14th  Illinois  Infantry.  He  was  mustered  out 
in  September,  1865.  After  service  a  year  and  a  half  as  teacher 
in  Shelby  Seminary,  purchased  a  ha] f  interest  in  Shelby  County 
Union,  and  later  his  partner's  interest,  and  edited  and  conducted 
the  Union,  assisted  by  his  brother,  E.  H.  Martin,  until  the  fall 
of  1873,  when  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  Union  and  removed  to 
Danville,  Illinois,  where  for  seven  years  he  was  editor  of  the 
the  Danville  Daily  and  Weekly  Commercial,  retiring  therefrom 
on  account  of  poor  health,  caused  by  wounds  received  in  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  April  6,  1862,  and  overwork.  Recovering 
somewhat,  he  established  the  Danville  Saturday  Opinion,  a 
literary  and  temperance  paper,  but  his  health  breaking  down 
entirely  he  was  compelled  to  abandon  that  enterprise. 

Mr.  Martin  was  married  December  30,  1867,  to  Miss  Ellen 
Huber,  daughter  of  the  late  Henry  Huber,  of  Shelbyville,  Illi- 
nois, to  whom  have  been  born  five  children — all  sons.  The 
oldest  died  in  infancy ;  the  other  four  are  living. 

The  foregoing  brief  record  shows  that  Mr.  Martin  has 
been  actuated  by  worthy  ambition  and  a  noble  purpose  through 
life.  Those  of  us  who  know  him  best  can  testify  to  his  fidelity 


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and  efficiency  in  whatever  sphere  he  has  been  called  to  act, 
whether  as  a  teacher,  soldier  or  editor.  He  has  been  always 
found  on  the  side  of  Law  and  Order,  Liberty  and  Union,  Tem- 
perance and  Religion. 

GEORGE  R.  WENDL1NG. 

Many  people  who  have  attended  lyceum  lectures  in  this 
country  during  the  past  half  dozen  years — as  a  large  number  of 
intelligent  men  and  women  have — will  have  seen  and  heard  this 
famous  young  orator,  George  R.  Wendling 

When  asked,  not  long  since,  about  his  ancestry,  for  a  bio- 
graphical sketch  in  an  eastern  paper,  Mr.  Wendling  wrote:— 

Nothing  to  boast  of  in  the  way  of  achievements,  I  reckon,  and 
nothing  to  be  ashamed  of,  I  know:  but  in  the  way  of  the  homely 
qualities  of  industry,  virtue,  piety,  and  excellent  repute,  a  good 
deal  to  be  proud  of.  Still,  my  mother,  who  died  twenty  years 
ago,  was  far  above  the  average  in  quick  intelligence  and  many 
splendid  traits— I  think  a  remarkable  woman.  It  was  however 
the  old  story,  quite  familiar  in  many  households  here  in  Illinois 
some  fifty  years  ago:  financial  reverses  drove  her  family  from 
Virginia  to  the  West.  My  father's  family  came  from  near 
Strasbourg,  then  in  France.  His  father  was  a  soldier  under 
Napoleon,  and  died  here  a  few  years  ago  at  the  comfortable 
age  of  ninety-five,  one  of  the  very  few  men  in  these  times  able 
to  say  that  they  were  in  the  wonderful  Italian  campaign  of  1796, 
with  the  great  Buonaparte,  and  with  him  on  his  March  to 
Moscow.  My  father  began  and  spent  his  early  Illinois  life  as 
a  mechanic  and  afterwards  became  a  well-to-do  farmer,  residing 
in  the  town.  I  recollect  that  as  mayor  of  our  town,  he  fined  me 
once  when  I  was  home  from  college  in  vacation,  and  owing  to 
the  state  of  my  finances  he  paid  the  fine  himself.  It  was  all 
about  a  very  naughty  fight  on  the  street  between  two  quick- 
tempered young  fellows,  and  I  was  one  of  them.  He  has  been 
living  in  retirement  here  in  our  town  of  Shelby  ville,  for  the  last 
twenty  years,  a  stern  old  Puritan  in  his  high  morality  and  in- 
flexible religious  notions,  and  I  think  it  is  not  immodest  for  me 
to  say  that  for  half  a  century  every  man  and  woman  in  the 
county  has  had  the  utmost  respect  for  him.  Some  Scotch  and 
some  Irish  blood  on  my  mother's  side,  and  some  French  and 
some  German  blood  on  my  father's  side,  a  somewhat  cosmopol- 
itan genealogy — but  it  is  a  half  a  dozen  generations  too  soon  to 
ask  a  western  man  to  tell  you  minutely  about  his  ancestry  be- 
yond one  or  two  generations.  We  are  too  busy  yet  out  west  for 
such  luxuries  as  genealogical  trees.  Wait  and  ask  our  great 
grandchildren. 


92  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

George  K.  Weudling  was  born  in  Shelbyville,  Illinois, 
January  15,  1845,  and,  excepting  the  few  years  he  resided  in 
Bloomington,  Illinois,  and  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  he  has  lived 
all  his  life  time,  when  not  at  college,  in  his  native  town.  He 
attended  for  several  years  the  academy  at  his  home,  after  which 
he  continued  his  studies  for  a  period  at  Miami  University, 
Oxford,  Ohio.  In  a  short  time  the  excited  condition  of  affairs 
in  that  portion  of  Ohio,  growing  out  of  the  war,  induced  a 
change  to  the  University  of  Chicago,  where  he  remained  until 
called  home  by  the  death  of  his  mother.  At  the  Chicago  Uni- 
versity he  won,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  the  declamation  prize, 
competed  for  by  the  entire  Freshman  class.  He  studied  at 
home  a  year  under  the  tutelage  of  a  highly  educated  clergyman 
of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  then  returned  to  Chicago,  and 
took  the  law  course  in  the  law  department  of  the  University, 
and  returned  in  1866  to  his  home,  where  he  engaged  for  several 
years  with  marked  success  in  the  practice  of  law,  for  most  of 
the  time,  as  partner  of  Judge  Anthony  Thornton. 

On  June  1,  1870,  Mr.  Wendling  was  married  to  Miss 
Josephine  Stephenson  of  Virginia;  and  by  this  happy  union  his 
home  is  blessed  with  two  daughters  and  one  son  on  earth,  and 
one  son  in  heaven. 

The  Wendling  home  is  a  spacious  cottage  that  seems  to  say, 
"Welcome,"  located  on  the  corner  just  across  the  street  north 
of  the  old  Academy  where  George  took  his  first  lessons  in  books 
and  where,  in  the  words  of  another,  he  was  "often  warmly  in- 
fluenced by  his  worthy  teacher."  "George,"  as  a  little  boy,  was 
full  and  bubbling  over  with  all  sorts  of  fancies,  quips,  and 
quirks.  He  was  prone  to  ask  many  questions  to  the  teacher 
during  recitation,  and  thus  lead  to  a  ganeral  conversation  away 
from  the  lesson,  especially  if  he  had  not  studied  the  lesson,  as 
he  was  not  likely  to  have  done  unless  it  was  of  special  interest 
to  him.  We  look  back  over  thirty  years  and  see  the  old  class 
room  filled  with  young  men  and  women  at  recitation,  and  the 
one  small  curly-headed,  black-eyed  boy — the  youngest  in  the 


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class — engaging  the  attention  of  all.  Yes,  we  can  almost  see 
the  sparkle  in  those  eyes,  and  the  bold,  solemn,  surprised  look 
the  boy  would  put  on  after  he  had  put  a  query  to  the  teacher, 
or  made  a  remark  that  threw  the  whole  class  into  a  convulsion 
of  laughter.  The  disposition  to  slight  the  lesson  in  the  text 
book,  and  study  or  not  as  the  whim  took  him,  was  contrary  to 
all  true  ideas  of  school  life  among  teachers  of  Puritan  training 
of  those  days.  This  may  partly  explain  "the  warming  influence" 
that  the  boy  received;  who,  because  he  was  full  of  life  and  play 
when  quite  a  boy,  was  preserved  with  a  sound  body  and  vigorous 
mind,  and  so  enabled  to  pursue  the  studies  in  more  mature 
years  that  have  made  him  the  useful  man  that  he  is. 

George  B.  Wendling's  career  and  fame  as  a  lyceutn  orator 
is  well  known  to  most  of  our  readers.  When  very  young  he 
suddenly  rose  to  public  notice.  An  ardent  Democrat  in  politics 
and  living  in  a  strongly  Democratic  district,  he  was  elected  to 
the  Constitutional  Convention  which  framed,  in  1870,  the 
present  Constitution  of  Illinois.  He  was  the  youngest  member 
of  that  body,  being  only  in  his  twenty-fifth  year,  but  he  was 
then  regarded  by  the  press  of  Illinois  as  the  most  brilliant 
orator  of  the  assembly. 

He  was  brought  into  the  Methodist  church  through  a  great 
revival,  when  about  twelve  years  old.  He  afterward,  as  he  be- 
gan to  think  more  for  himself,  became  a  thorough  skeptic  and 
remained  so  for  several  years.  But,  finally,  by  serious  inquiry 
and  thought,  he  came  to  his  better  self,  became  convinced  of  the 
great  truths  of  Christianity,  and  united  with  the  Episcopal 
church  of  which  he  is  still  a  member.  He  is  very  reasonable 
and  charitable  in  his  religious  views,  dislikes  bigotry,  and  has 
no  taste  for  distinguishing  and  dividing 

"A  hair  'twixt  south  and  southwest." 

In  fact  he  steers  clear  of  ultraism  in  either  church  or  state, 
politics  or  religion.  However,  though  exceedingly  genial  and 
sociable,  he  would  hardly  do  what  we  once  heard  of  a  "Liberal" 
Unitarian  doing,  swallow  the  whole  Athanasiau  creed  "merely 


94  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

for  the  sociability  of  the  thing."  Mr.  Wendliug  is  quite  fa- 
miliar with  the  best  religious  literature  and  does  not  hesitate 
to  give  authors  like  Channing,  Clarke,  and  Martineau  credit  for 
having  greatly  aided  him  in  finding  solid  ground  in  Christian 
faith. 

In  January  1878,  by  invitation  of  a  number  of  leading 
citizens  of  that  city,  Mr.  Wendling  delivered  a  lecture  in  Mer- 
cantile Libraiy  Hall,  St.  Louis.  His  subject  was,  "Ingersollism 
from  a  Secular  Standpoint."  It  was  received  with  great  popu- 
lar favor.  People  everywhere  were  then  ready  to  listen  to 
whatever  claimed  to  take  square  issue  with  Mr.  Ingersoll's  witty 
and  irreverent  tirades  upon  the  Bible  and  Christianity.  Mr. 
Wendling's  subject  was  a  happy  hit  and  he  at  once  achieved  a 
national  reputation,  and  yielded  to  the  very  large  offers  made 
him  to  enter  the  the  lecture  field.  In  this  field  he  will  doubtless 
remain  for  years.  His  anti-Ingersollism  lecture  was  followed 
by  others  growing  out  of  that  subject.  The  titles  are:  (1. ) 
Beyond;  or,  is  Death  the  End?  (2.)  The  Evil  One;  or,  the 
Personality  of  Satan.  ( 3. )  Voltaire ;  or,  an  Evening  with  a 
French  Infidel.  Mr.  Wendling  has  also  prepared  a  lecture  on 
"Hamlet,  and  his  Interpreters,"  which  we  have  been  permitted 
to 'read.  We  regard  this  as  a  very  suggestive  and  instructive 
literary  production  on  a  theme  always  interesting  to  a  cultured 
audience.  He  has  lectured,  in  all,  over  a  thousand  nights  in 
nearly  every  principal  city  in  the  United  States,  east  and  west. 

As  we  write  this  sketch  we  take  up  the  daily  paper  and 
read  a  glowing  report  of  Mr.  Wendling's  new  lecture  011 
"  'Stonewall'  Jackson"  in  Tremont  Temple,  Boston.  It  is  an- 
nounced by  the  Lecture  Bureau  that  this  young  orator  has 
engaged  to  go  at  the  close  of  the  present  season  1886-7  to 
England  where  he  will  lecture  fifty  nights.  The  press  over  the 
land  has  teemed  with  his  praise,  and  the  pulpit  has  welcomed 
him  as  its  most  efficient  ally.  Leading  clergymen  have 
passed  high  encomiums  upon  Mr.  Wendling  as  an  orator.  In- 
deed, we  have  feared  that  his  great  peril  was  over  much  public 


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commendation  and  too  little  candid  and  wise  criticism.  Never- 
theless, he  has  improved  from  year  to  year,  not  only  in  literary 
taste  and  graceful  oratory,  but,  as  we  are  glad  to  believe,  in 
earnest  moral  purpose.  We  are  more  than  ever  convinced  of 
this  fact  after  raadiug  his  lecture  entitled  "Saul  of  Tarsus." 

We  remember  the  saying  of  the  Master  about  a  prophet 
being  without  honor  in  his  own  country;  and  we  feel  ourselves 
in  danger  of  not  fully  appreciating  those  with  whom  we  have 
long  been  familiar.  But  we  confess  that  the  reading  of  this 
lecture  compels  us,  in  our  heart,  to  honor  the  author  more 
than  ever.  We  quote  the  following  sentences  from  this  lecture: 

"What  was  the  paramount  object  of  this  -man's  (Paul's) 
head  and  heart?  With  Whitfield,  it  was  salvation;  with  John 
Brown,  it  was  anti-slavery ;  with  Washington,  patriotism ;  with 
Ruskin  it  was  art;  with  Wilberforce,  philantrhopy;  with 
Napoleon,  glory;  with  Shakespeare,  poetry;  with  Columbus, 
discovery ;  with  Plato,  philosophy ;  with  Saul  of  Tarsus  it  was 
the  Universal  Brotherhood  of  Man.  Humanly  speaking,  the 
animating  idea  of  Paul's  life  was  the  destruction  of  caste,  the 
sowing  of  that  sort  of  doctrine  which  makes  Jews  and  Gentiles 
equal  in  the  sight  of  God.  Paul  was  the  great  Cosmopolitan. 
Let  no  man  in  this  land  of  our=i  call  himself  a  Christian  who 
would  deny  citizenship  or  fellowship  to  any  human  being  be- 
cause of  race  or  color." 

May  George  R.  Wendling  live  long  to  exemplify  these 
principles  of  brotherhood  and  citizenship  in  act  as  well  as  in 
speech,  and  may  we  every  one  clasp  hands  with  him  in  this 
high  fellowship. 

WALTER  C.  HEADEN. 

He  was  born  November  26,  1851,  in  Shelby ville,  111.,  in  the 
old  residence  building  formerly  fronting  on  Main  Street  but 
now  stand  on  Broadway,  north  of  the  stores  of  Kleeman  & 
Goldstein.  His  father,  Dr.  William  Headen,  was  one  of  our 
pioneers,  coming  to  this  county  before  1830,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death  in  the  autumn  of  1863.  Young  Headen's  mother, 


06  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

the  daughter  of  another  pioneer,  Joshua  Guilford,  died  iu 
August,  1853.  At  a  very  early  age  the  father  started  Walter  to 
school  in  the  old  Seminary  where  he  attended  until  his  father's 
death,  excepting  a  short  time  that  he  went  to  B.  J.  Young  and 
Edwin  Davis  who  taught  in  the  old  "Christian"  church. 

After  Dr.  Headen's  death  the  family  was  scattered  and 
Walter,  then  about  twelve  years  old,  went  to  make  his  home 
with  Hon.  S.  W.  Moulton.  He  continued  regularly  in  school  in 
Shelby  Seminary  until  the  close  of  the  school  year  in  1868. 
That  fall  he  went  to  Normal,  Illinois,  and  went  to  the  High 
School,  remaining  a  year.  In  1869  he  returned  to  Shelbyville, 
took  a  clerkship  in  George  Lower's  book  store  where  he  worked 
for  more  than  a  year.  In  1870  he  returned  to  Normal  and  spent 
another  year  in  school.  In  the  fall  of  1871  he  obtained  a  school 
near  Whitehall,  Greene  county,  this  state,  and  taught  that 
winter.  In  the  spring  of  1872  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
Moulton  &  Chafee  in  Shelbyville.  January,  1875,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bar  and  at  the  same  time  to  a  partnership  with 
Moulton  &  Chafee  where  he  still  remains  in  the  active  practice 
of  his  profession, 

September  6,  1876,  he  married  Miss  Virginia  Barrett  of 
Shelbyville.  For  several  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  church  of  his  native  city.  August,  1875,  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Beveridge,  Public  Administrator  for 
Shelby  county,  serving  until  April  26,  1879,  when  he  resigned. 
In  1876  he  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  State's  Attorney  of 
Shelby  county,  running  ahead  of  his  ticket.  As  early  as  Feb- 
ruary, 1873,  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Shelby  County 
Agricultural  Board  which  position  he  has  held  continuously 
since.  He  was  City  Attorney  from  January  1879,  to  May  1881.  In 
1881  he  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  Mayor.  In  1884  he  be- 
came a  candidate  for  Representative  in  the  Legislature  from  the 
33rd  Senatorial  District  composed  of  the  counties  of  Shelby, 
Moultrie  and  Effingham.  On  account  of  difficulties  growing 
out  of  contesting  delegations,  the  nominating  convention  split; 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  97 

two  conventions  were  held;  and  two  Rapublican  candidates 
placed  on  the  track  with  no  possibility  of  electing  but  one;  this 
was  011  June  23, 1884;  and  for  more  than  four  months  was  waged 
one  of  the  most  exciting  political  contests  ever  known  in  this 
part  of  the  state,  resulting  in  Headen's  election  over  his  oppo- 
nent, Joseph  P.  Condo,  of  Effingham  county,  by  a  fair  ma- 
jority. This  election  made  Headen  one  of  the  participants  in  the 
memorable  Legislative  contest,  still  fresh  in  mind,  which  ended 
in  the  election  of  John  A.  Logan  to  the  United  States  Senate. 

Walter  Headen  inherits  many  of  the  noble  qualities  of  his 
father  and  mother.  He  is  a  genial  companion  and  an  accom- 
modating neighbor.  He  possesses  rare  popular  qualities  and  is 
a  fine  public  speaker.  As  an  attorney,  he  is  able  and  honest; 
and  as  a  citizen  he  is  public  spirited,  and  an  earnest  advocate 
of  the  temperance  reform  and  all  measures  looking  toward 
human  welfare. 

Mr.  Headen  is  one  of  the  few  of  his  school-mates  who 
remain  in  Shelbyville.  He  daily  passes  the  dear  old  familiar 
school-house  and  grounds,  in  going  to  and  from  his  business; 
the  old  bell,  which  from  its  cupola  called  him  in  child- 
hood days  so  many  hundred  times  from  play  to  study,  now 
swings  in  the  belfry  of  the  Baptist  church  -the  church  of  his 
choice — almost  in  his  own  door-yard,and  its  ringing  must  certain- 
ly serve  to  bring  together  in  his  mind,  memories  of  the  past, 
thoughts  of  the  present  and  reflections  concerning  the  future. 
DR.  PENWELL  AND  CHILDREN. 

Dr.  Enos  Penwell  is  the  oldest  practicing  physician  in 
Shelbyville,  Illinois.  He  was  born  in  Abington,  Indiana, 
March  22,  1821;  graduated  at  Indiana  Medical  College,  Laporte, 
Indiana,  in  1848,  and  came  to  Illinois  in  1853  where  he  has  since 
resided.  He  was  first  married,  June  9,  1842,  to  Miss  Martha  Hallo- 
way,  of  Indiana,  by  whom  he  was  father  to  five  children,  three 
sons,  Frank.  George  V.  and  Orville  Jerome;  and  two  daughters, 
Helen  M.  and  Mary  E.  All  these  received  their  first  training 
in  books  at  the  old  Seminary.  They  will  be  remembered  as 


98  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL." 

bright,  healthy,  well  behaved  boys  and  girls.  All  but  one  are 
still  living. 

HELEN  M.,  who  was  married  to  Mr.  William  H.  Rich,  died 
at  her  home  in  Sedalia,  Missouri,  in  1874. 

MARY  E.  is  the  wife  of  Arthur  E.  Launey,  a  photographer, 
now  doing  a  thriving  business  in  Savannah,  Georgia;  and  there 
is  their  home  blessed  with  little  children. 

FRANK  PENWELL,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  practicing  attorney 
and  a  resident  of  Danville,  Illinois.  He  is  doing  a  lucrative 
business,  and  is  blessed  with  a  wife  and  children. 

ORVILLE  JEROME,  the  youngest  son,  (partly  named  in  honor 
of  C.  W.  Jerome)  also  resides  in  Danville. 

GEORGE  V.  is  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  and  lives  in 
a  pleasant  home  with  wife  and  children  at  Pana,  Christian 
County,  Illinois.  George  is  remarkable  for  his  very  successful 
business  methods.  He  never  employs  men  who  drink  or 
gamble,  his  large  business  runs  smoothly  and  regularly  as 
clock  work  and  his  customers  learn  to  trust  and  honor  him  for 
his  strict  integrity. 

Dr.  Penwell's  first  wife  died  August  8,  1857.  On  the  9th  of 
December,  1858,  the  doctor  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mary  D'Pugh, 
nee  Golem  an,  by  whom  he  is  father  of  two  daughters,  Pauline 
and  Hilda.  These  remain  with  their  parents  to  make  home 
bright. 

For  forty  years  has  this  excellent  physician  practiced  the 
healing  art,  and  for  thirty-three  years  of  this  time  he  has  lived 
in  Shelby  ville ;  and,  what  is  most  remarkable,  Dr.  Pen  well  has 
in  all  hies  professional  career  scarcely  ever  been  prevented  from 
answering  calls  of  patients  because  of  his  own  ill-health.  In- 
heriting a  sound  body,  Dr.  Penwell  has  taken  good  care  of  it, 
and  has  preserved  a  sound  mind  in  his  body.  He  has  never 
indulged  in  the  bad  habits  of  drinking,  smoking  or  chewing. 
He  eats  to  live  rather  than  lives  to  eat;  he  maintains  a  quiet, 
even  temper  and  a  very  level  head.  He  has  kept  his  eyes  and 
ears  open  through  life;  in  other  words  he  is  a  close  observer 


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and  has  lived  to  learn,  and  does  not  forget  what  he  has  once 
learned.  Although  not  attempting  much  riding  of  late  years, 
he  is  ever  ready  to  give  good  and  wise  advice  to  those  who  call 
at  his  office.  Best  of  all,  by  example  more  than  precept,  Dr. 
Enos  Penwell  has  taught  people  how  to  use  the  ounce  of  pre- 
vention; his  great  physicians  are  pure  air,  pure  water,  whole- 
some food,  temperate  habits  and  a  good  conscience.  Long  may 
he  live  among  us  to  commend  by  his  life  these  great  physicians! 
It  is  a  real  pleasure  to  present  in  these  pages  the  familiar 
face  of  so  old,  constant  and  worthy  a  friend  and  patron  of  the 
Seminary,  and  with  him  also  the  faces  of  three  of  his  children 
who  were  among  the  most  constant  and  beloved  pupils  of  that 

institution. 

SHORT  SKETCHES. 

Of  the  teachers  not  mentioned  in  these  sketches  we  have 
failed  to  get  any  report.  In  a  note  from  Mr.  Jerome  in  answer 
to  our  enquiries  he  says :  "I  regret  not  to  know  where  some  of 
the  teachers  have  gone;  but  I  shall  never  forget  any  of  them. 
You  can  say  for  me  that  they  were  all  faithful  and  efficient  in 
their  work.  Their  memory  is  precious  to  me." 

JACOB  C.  MILLER  was  somewhere  in  California  when  last 
heard  from. 

IONE  F.  DANIELS  when  last  heard  from  by  the  one  of 
whom  we  inquired  was  married  to  an  attorney  in  Chicago  and 
residing  in  that  city, — the  husband's  name  not  known. 

Lou  M.  MASON  was  married  to  Capt.  ElHngton  who 
kept  the  hotel  of  his  name  in  Shelbyville,  some  years  ago. 
They  are  now  living,  we  understand,  at  Mt.  Ayr,  Iowa. 

JAMES  M.  NORTH  is  now  probate  judge  at  Boulder,  Colorado, 
and  is  spoken  of  with  high  esteem  by  all  who  know  him.  Judge 
North's  old  pupils  and  friends  in  Shelby  Seminary  have  very 
kind  remembrances  of  him. 

ANN  E.  RHOADS  (sister  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Rhoads  of  Shelby- 
ville) taught  in  the  Seminary  1857  and  1858.  She  was  married 
to  Mr.  William  Young  about  1862  or  1863  and  now  resides  in 
Carpenter sville,  Putman  county,  Indiana. 


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MATTIE  B.  SMITH  will  be  remembered  as  one  of  the 
faithful  and  pleasant  teachers  in  the  Seminary,  during  the  year, 
1861  and  1862.  She  was  married  to  Col.  George  A.  Poteet  and 
now  lives  with  her  family  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

MAGGIE  E.  OSBOND  (Preceptress)  is  now  the  wife  of 
Prof.  Albert  Stetson,  for  many  years  professor  in  the  Northern 
Illinois  State  Normal,  and  her  good  sister,  Miss  Mary  J.  Osbond, 
resides  in  Quincy,  Michigan.  These  two  sisters  were  among 
the  most  efficient  teachers  of  the  Seminary,  and  their  names 
and  faithful  services  are  held  in  grateful  and  endearing  remem- 
brance by  teachers,  pupils  and  patrons. 

MINNIE  H.  GRAHAM,  one  of  the  early  students  and  teachers 
in  the  Seminary,  was  married  to  Mr.  J.  A.  Moudy  (an  editor) 
in  1860.  Her  husband  died  some  years  ago  and  his  widow 
is  now  the  faithful  matron  of  the  Orphan's  Home,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois; and  her  daughter  is  associated  with  her  in  this  Home  and 
edits  a  bright  little  monthly,  the  Home  Visitor.  All  that  knew 
her  have  happy  recollections  of  "Minnie  Graham." 

C.  B.  (better  known  as  Burkey)  MYERS  will  be  pleasantly 
remembered  especially  by  those  of  us  who  were  associated  with 
him  in  the  Old  Seminary  days.  He  always  wore  a  good  natured 
smile  and  had  a  happy  greeting  for  everybody.  After  leaving 
the  Seminary  Mr.  Myers  attended  Wabash  College  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  Indiana,  for  a  year.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Mattie 
L.  Lytle,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  in  1858,  and  soon  after  estab- 
lished himself  as  Dental  Surgeon  in  Hillsboro,  Illinois,  where 
he  built  up  a  lucrative  business  and  made  a  pleasant  home  for 
his  family  until  1866,  when  he  passed  to  that  better  country 
leaving  behind  the  wife,  one  son  and  two  daughters  who  are 
living  to  this  day. 

DR.  WILLIAM  HEADEN  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  most  ho  n- 
ored  physicians  of  Shelby ville  and  a  generous  patron  and  friend 
of  the  old  Seminary.  His  home  was  near  the  Seminary,  and  was 
ever  open  with  a  hospitable  welcome  to  the  students  and  teach- 
ers and  their  friends.  His  pleasant  family  of  sou  and  daughters 


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were  educated  largely  within  its  walls.  One  daughter,  Miss 
Anna  Headen,  who  was  a  teacher  in  the  institution  from  1866  to 
1869,  is  now  the  wife  of  Hon.  William  Chew,  and  devoted  to  the 
interests  of  her  home  and  kindly  service  to  all  about  her.  Mrs. 
Chew  deserves  a  prominent  place  on  these  pages,  as  she  holds 
a  high  place  in  the  esteem  of  her  old  pupils  and  friends.  Two 
of  the  sisters  whom  we  all  knew  so  well  in  early  school  days, 
namely,  "Nannie,"  now  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Guilford,  and  "Ella," 
now  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Woodward  live  near  the  old  homestead,  fondly 
given  to  their  homes  and  family,  and  ready  to  do  kind  deeds 
to  all  about  them.  Dr.  Headen's  son,  Walter,  is  noticed  on 
another  page. 


Miss  THIRRISSA  J.  TRAVIS  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  Septem- 
ber 1,  1848,  and  came  to  Illinois  with  her  parents  in  1855.  She 
attended  Shelby  Seminary  in  years  1866-67  and  was  noted  for  her 
dilligence  as  a  student  and  many  amiable  qualities  of  mind  and 
heart.  She  received  honorable  mention  for  the  part  she  took 
in  the  closing  exercises  of  July  1867.  (See  page  32.)  She  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Graybill  about  Oc- 
tober 24,  1872.  On  Angust  7th,  1873  she  passed  to  that  better 
land  sadly  missed  and  mourned  by  all  who  knew  her.  Her 
memory  is  fondly  cherished  by  all  her  old  teachers  and  school- 
mates. 


A  GLIMPSE  AT  MOEE  THAN  ONE   HUNDEED  WHO 
EEMAIN  NEAR  THE  OLD  SEMINAEY. 

For  dear  old  acquaintance  sake,  let  us  recall  as  many  as  we 
can  of  all  the  teachers  and  pupils  that  are  still  here  in 
Shelbyville  and  vicinity,  and  perhaps  of  some  that  are  scattered 
abroad. 

Let  us  turn  back  to  page  sixty-six  and  begin.  There  are 
only  two  that  remain  of  those  teachers;  but  there  is  one  here 
(Mrs.  Thornton)  and  perhaps  others  of  whom  we  are  not  in- 
formed who  taught  in  the  school  during  Mr.  Jerome's  absence 
in  the  war.  Now  let  us  take  the  list  of  names  of  students  be- 
ginning on  page  sixty-seven:  William  Amlin  drives  the  pen  in 
the  circuit  clerks  office  at  the  court  house;  Charles  Austin 
drives  a  good  team  about  our  streets;  James  Andes  does  busi- 
ness at  Tower  Hill ;  Edward  Basye  travels  extensively  but  ap- 
pears on  our  streets  frequently;  Thomas  Blackstone  lives  near 
by  on  a  farm;  so  does  good  John  Barrickman  who  made  an 
honorable  race  for  county  treasurer  at  last  election;  Fred 
Bartscht  is  a  well-to-do  farmer;  James  Cutler  keeps  a  provision 
store  011  Morgan  street,  witli  his  partner  Abraham  Oliver  who 
is  the  husband  of  Mary  Oliver,  one  of  the  Samiiiary  girls. 
Morris  Cottlow  will  sell  you  an  honest  suit  at  his  clothing 
store,  and  his  little  daughter,  "Gussie,"  is  a  musical  wonder 
of  her  age.  William  Chew  is  at  his  law  office  just  after  the  close 
of  an  exciting  campaign  in  which  he  did  valiant  service  for  the 
Temperance  Eeform.  Wilbur  Cook  is  foreman  printer  of  the 
Shelby  County  Leader.  Most  of  the  members  of  the  Cramer 


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family  are  here  as  of  yore  and  down  for  a  copy  of  this  memorial; 
and  so  are  William  and  Henry  Campbell,  two  good  boys  and 
useful  men— the  latter  still  painting,  and  William  an  invalid, 
(we  are  sorry  for  it)  is  nevertheless   busy  in  his  Variety  Store 
near  by  the  old  Seminary  grounds.     Baalis  Davis  will  take  care 
of  your  team   when  you   come   to  town,  or   supply  you   with  a 
horse  and  buggy  from  his  livery  and  feed  stable.     Dr.  William 
F.  Fleming   visits  the  sick  and  lends   a  hand  to  the  Sunday- 
school  when  he  can  spare   time  from    his  patients.     William 
Guilford  will  wait  on  you   at  the  hardware   store  during  the 
week  and  on  Sunday  he  has  been  the  faithful  secretary  of  the 
Unity  Sunday-school  for  many  years.    Headen  Graham  is  at  his 
desk  in   the  court  house,  and  knows  better  how  to  attend  to 
county    official    business     than     almost     any   other     man   in 
Shelby  county, — the  same  honest  fellow,  but  sobered  by  years. 
He  lives  with  his  mother  (the  dear  "Auntie"  whom  we  all  know 
and  love,  and,  by  the  way,  it  is  from  her  memory  that  we  have 
gleaned  largely  for  this  memorial)  in  the  same  old  homestead 
right  by  where  the  old  Methodist  church  used  to  stand  in  which 
the  school  we  commemorate  first  opened, — the  homestead  from 
which   Headen   and   his  bright   sisters  "Sarah"  and   "Mattie" 
went  to  school  thirty  years  ago.     William  Earp   is  the  same 
peaceful,  honest  man  that  he  was  a  boy;  and  William  J.  Eddy 
is  one  of  our  most   popular  practicing  physicians.        AVillie 
Hodgson  is  still  here  and  his  good  sister  "Hannah" — how  well 
we  remember  these  two— the  pleasant  and  obedient  little  En- 
glish boy  and  girl  of  the  early  days  of  the  "Academy"  and  time 
has  not  spoiled  them, — they  are  as  quiet,  modest  and  dutiful  as 
ever.     Tonie  Herrick  was  a  little  boy  in  the  Seminary  and  per- 
haps played   sometimes  at  building  houses;  but  he  is  now  the 
husband  of  her  who  was  known  as  Alice  Keeler  in  school  days. 
They  have  a  family   of  three  playful  and   polite  boys  ( "Kitty," 
the  lovely   daughter  has  gone  Above ) ;  and  the  husband   and 
father  now   builds   houses   or  pays  for   housebuilding  in  real 
earnest, — no  one  citizen  has  done  more  for  Shelbyville  in  this  line. 


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Harrison  Hart  is  one  of  our  best  and   most  steady  house   car- 
penters, and   James   Miller  does   honest  work  with   brick    and 
mortar,  and  also  represents  the  First  Ward  in  our  city  council. 
Willis  and  Charles  Hall  are  men  of  families  and  will  card  wool 
and  weave  cloth  or  knit  stockings  for  you  by  machinery.     Eber 
Harwood  has  a  pleasant  family  and  with  his  father  buys  and 
ships  large  quantities  of   hay.     Milo    Homrighous   and   Dora 
Levering  are  husband  and  wife  and  he  works  in  the  jewelry 
store  with  his  father.  John  Homrighous  is  also  with  us.  Moses 
Jackson  is  a  real  genius  with  tools,  and  is  always  at  his  shop  to 
mend  or  make  anything  you  want,  from  a  jimcrack  to  a  gun- 
stock  or  washing  machine.    John  Kellar  is  busy  making  hainess 
while  his  brother  Charles  carries  on  the  Abstract  business  with 
J.  William  Lloyd;  and  Mr.  Lloyd  is  the  husband  of  her  who 
was  Mary   Kelley   and  who   is  now  a  noble  Christian  wife  and 
mother  and  active  member  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance  Union,  with   Mrs.    Chafee    ("Maria   Smith")   and    Mrs. 
Mouser    ("Eliza    Bruster")  -the    home   of    the  latter  is  now 
in     Dakota, — would     there     were     several     million     of    such 
women.     Gottlieb  Klauser  quietly  plods  on  in  the  harness  shop 
regularly  as  the  clock  ticks.     William  O.  Kelley  is  foreman  in 
OUR  BEST  WORDS  office,  and  manages  the  printing  of  this  book 
assisted  by  "Willie"   (son  of  William  Oliver  of  the  Seminary) 
and   Robert    and    George   Douthit,   nephews   of    the    George 
Douthit  (now  in  heaven)  whose  name  appears  on  page  thirty- 
three  of  this  book.     Morris  Kleemau  may  be  found  behind  the 
counter  in  Kleeman  &  Goldstein's  large   dry  goods  store, — he 
read    the   President's  proclamation  at  the  Union  Service  on 
Thanksgiving     day,    November  25,     1886.     The    three    Lantz 
brothers  are  thrifty  in  their  business  as  tinners  and  dealers  in 
stoves  and  household  furniture;  she  that  we  knew  as  Eachael 
Bell  is  the  good  wife  of  William  Lantz;  Isaac   Lantz  is   the 
husband  of  her   that  used  to  be  "Maggie  Cutler,"  and  Charles 
P.  was  married  to  Lizzie  Cutler;  and  they  all  have  comfortable 
homes  with  children  about  them.     Charles  Laws  as  a  man  very 


106  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

much  resembles  the  plain,  honest  school  boy  that  he  used  to  be. 
Edgar  Leach  sells  lots  of  boots  and  shoes, — is  also  a  first  rate 
architect,  and  for  amusement  can  act  his  part  well  in  a  play  of 
home  talent,  or  construct  a  campaign  chanticleer  and  make  it 
crow  lustily.  No  one  in  Shelbyville  can  set  type  and  edit  a 
paper  at  the  same  time  so  well  as  Elgin  Martin  who  has  worked 
in  the  Union  office  with  his  brother  Horace,  for  many  years. 
Lewis  Parker  and  George  Roberts  are  partners  in  a  large 
lumber  yard  and  attend  strictly  to  business.  Mr.  Parker  is  the 
husband  of  her  whom  we  all  knew  at  school  as  Mary  Roberts 
(daughter  of  Burrel  Roberts,  for  many  years  our  good  county 
clerk)  and  her  sister  Laura  is  now  Mrs.  Henry  Shade,  while 
the  other  sister,  "Mattie,"  lives  with  her  widowed  mother  to 
make  home  happy  and  scatter  kind  words  wherever  she  goes. 
Christie  Ballet — the  trusty  boy  — is  now  the  steady,  manly  clerk 
in  the  old  Bank  of  Win.  F.  Thornton  &  Son,  and  the  wife  that 
greets  him  at  home  is  she  whose  name  is  down  in  the  Seminary 
Catalogue,  as  Mary  Trower,  the  accomplished  daughter  of 
William  A.  Trower,  the  editor  of  the  Shelby  County  Leader. 
James  Bivins  is  trying  to  do  his  duty  as  constable;  Joseph 
Bivins  is  not  on  earth  any  more,  but  his  daughter,  Hattie,  is 
here — a  very  successful  teacher  of  music.  Andrew  Pollard  is 
the  true  gentleman  in  his  jewelry  store  that  we  might  expect 
him  to  be  who  was  the  well  behaved  boy;  and  Henry  Parish 
will  deal  with  you  fairly  every  time  in  the  clothing  store  of 
which  he  is  principal  salesman.  David  Sheely  (we  used  to  call 
him  Ansou)  became  the  husband  of  Ann  E.  Bivins  whom 
schoolmates  and  teachers  remember  pleasantly;  David  makes 
a  living  for  his  family  at  the  carpenter's  bench.  George  Terry 
has  a  .wife  with  three  sons  and  one  daughter  in  his  home;  he 
keeps  a  clothing  store,  and  is  also  a  clever  auctioneer.  And 
George  Wendling  what  shall  we  say  more  of  him?  except 
to  remark  that  we  are  all  glad  that  his  home  is  with  us.  By 
the  way,  that  contribution  of  George's  on  page  eighty-two 
shows  legal  as  well  as  literary  genius,  for,  considering  the 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  107 

subject,  it  required  great  genius  to  make  out  so  plausible  a  case, 
in  our  humble  opinion.  Charles  S.  Woo  1  ward  became  the 
husband  of  Ella  Headen,  and  they  are  happy  in  their  home 
surrounded  by  their  children  to  this  day;  and  Charles  assists 
his  father  at  the  mill.  Charles  and  Thomas  Worley  are  here, 
the  former  at  work  in  a  hardware  store  and  setting  pumps  and  the 
latter  as  foreman  in  the  Democrat  printing  office.  Charles  and 
Leverett  Webster  made  two  of  the  best  post-masters  Shelby  ville 
ever  had;  they  now  help  their  father  in  the  mercantile  business. 
Alice  Wright  is  now  Mrs.  John  Kinnee, — strange  that  her  name 
with  a  few  others  of  the  old  students  is  omitted  in  the  list 
furnished  us;  but  now  it  is  down,  and  she  is  well  remembered. 
Mollie  Bayse — how  well  we  all  remember  her,  and  with  pleasant 
thoughts,  too — became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Walker  of  Texas.  She 
is  now  somewhat  afflicted  in  body,  but  blessed  with  her  two 
children  and  surrounded  by  relatives  and  friends  near  the  spot 
of  her  birth.  Jennie  Barrett  is  now  Mrs.  Walter  Headen  with 
a  happy  family.  Lena  Dagan  has  become  the  good  wife  of 
Edward  Rompf.  Helen  and  Anna  Frazier  still  live — neighborly 
women  as  they  were  kind  hearted  girls — Helen  being  married 
to  Alex.  Dill  and  has  a  large  family  of  children, 
lone  Gregory  is  the  same  "lone,"  unselfish  as  ever, 
happy  in  forgetting  self  and  serving  others  and  seemingly  as 
young  as  twenty  years  ago.  She  lives  in  the  old  homestead 
with  her  noble  mother.  Minnie  Garis  lives  with  her  sister 
(Mrs.  Cochran),  gives  lessons  in  music  and  has  been  a  faith- 
ful organist  at  the  Unitarian  church  for  several  years.  Maggie 
Harrison  (Sutton)  that  was  once  so  full  of  innocent  glee  is  now 
a  quiet  matronly  woman,  always  at  her  post  in  her  millinery 
shop.  Annie  Harding  as  Mrs.  Taylor  Coffman  is  the  mother  of 
a  beautiful  family  of  children,  and  is  the  same  true  lady  as  she 
was  a  girl  at  school.  Kind  hearted  and  courteous  Lucy  E. 
Jones  is  known  to-day  as  Mrs.  Walton,  a  widow  with  a  son  and 
daughter  grown;  she  is  a  devoted  Christian  looking  to  that 
Better  Country  whither  so  many  that  she  loved  have  gone ;  her 


108  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

brother  Nelson — how  well  we  remember  his  declaiming  Scott's 
"Brave  Lochinvar" — went  on  before,  years  ago.  Viola  Keeler 
is  now  teacher  in  our  puplic  schools.  Who  of  the  early  days  of 
the  Seminary  does  not  remember  Emma  L.  McMorris?  She  is 
uow  the  widow  Craig  with  a  cosey  home  near  her  father  and 
is  blessed  with  the  presence  of  dutiful  sons.  "Demmie"  Parish 
the  faithful  helper  of  Charles  and  Lydia  Scovil,  is  now  Mrs, 
Philo  Parker,  and  "Pedie,"  the  other  sister,  now  Mrs.  Gus. 
Pfeiffer,  of  Orange,  California,  has  just  departed  for  her  home 
after  a  welcome  visit  with  Shelbyville  friends.  Helen  and  Laura 
Kutherford  will  be  pleasantfy  remembered, — only  one  of  these 
has  changed  name;  Laura  is  now  Mrs.  Hedges.  Yes,  Rie  N. 
(Mrs.  Chafee)  and  Kate  H.  Smith  (Mrs.  Thornton)  are  with  us, 
a  blessing  to  the  community.  Who  in  Shelbyville  has  not  taken 
music  lessons  of  Mrs.  Chafee  or  from  some  of  her  pupils?  Why 
this  very  day,  December  First,  1886,  she  is  training  a  class  of 
little  ones  in  voice  culture  within  those  same  old  Seminary 
walls.  Mattie  Stewart  is  the  good  wife  of  our  present  city 
Mayor,  David  Marks;  and  Thomas  Stewart,  who  was  the  talented 
young  editor  of  the  Greenback  Herald  was  Mrs.  Marks'  brother; 
his  name  should  be  marked  with  a  star — peace  to  his  ashes. 
Carlie  Sears  is  now  Mrs.  Hibbard  whose  husband  is  a  railroad 
official;  and  Mary  Sittler  is  Mrs.  Fear  whose  husband 
(Absalom)  is  one  of  the  best  salesmen  in  the  country.  Lizzie 
Tackett,  the  seemingly  frail  little  girl  twenty  years  or  more  ago, 
is  now  Mrs.  Ed.  Hopkins  ( whose  husband  is  one  of  our  best 
druggists)  and  the  mother  of  a  bright  daughter,  Georgie,  who 
reminds  us  very  much  of  the  "Lizzie"  of  Seminary  times. 
Alice  Scovil  became  the  wife  of  Jacob  Andes,  and  Clara,  of  Dr. 
Frank  P.  Bivins, — both  have  pleasant  homes  and  are  living  to 
make  the  world  better  and  happier.  Mary  Stewardson  has  be- 
come Mrs.  Andrew  Ensminger.  She  was  a  good  and  quiet 
sensible  girl  and  is  the  same  as  a  woman,  faithful  to  all  her 
trusts.  Mollie  Parker  is  now  Mrs.  Isenberg  surrounded  with 
hosts  of  friends.  Margery  Oliver  is  one  whom  Father  Time 


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<has  touched  gently — though  she  has  had  her  share  of  sorrow— 
and  to-day  when  we  meet  her  some  of  us  think  of  her  just  as 
;she  was  over  twenty-five  years  ago  when  she  came  to  school 
with  her  younger  brother,  Joseph,  who  was  gathered  to  the 
heavenly  home  long  before  the  father  and  mother.  Annie 
West  is  still,  as  she  has  been  for  years,  the  faithful  organist  at 
the  Baptist  church.  Mary  Church  is  now  the  kind  neighbor, 
Mrs.  Bisdee,  whose  husband  is  the  butcher  who  always  gives 
the  preachers  and  churches  "gospel  measure."  Ann  E.  Durban 
is  now  Mrs.  James  Weakly  (boot  and  shoe  merchant)  and 
Eannie  Durban  is  the  wife  of  the  gentlemanly  druggist,  Joseph 
Seaman.  We  always  think  of  these  two  women  together,  for  we 
always  saw  them  together  at  school  and  they  were  favorites  of 
us  all,  as  was  their  dear  aunt,  Eliza  Huber,  Then,  here  is 
Belle  and  Hattie  Silver  and  the  Travis  sisters,  and  many  more 
among  us  of  whom  we  are  not  informed  but  who  are  contributing 
their  part  to  the  sum  of  human  happiness  everyone  of  whose 
names  suggest  good  thoughts  and  revive  pleasant  memories, 
Josephine  Bivins  is  the  wife  of  William  Austin  and  has  child- 
ren grown, — we  all  remember  her  as  a  good  girl  at  school;  and 
so  was  Nellie  Marks  who  became  the  wife  of  John  T.  Hall  and 
they  have  children  and  a  daughter  nearly  grown.  Illinois  W. 
Harnett  became  the  wife  of  W.  W.  Hess,  our  ex-county 
judge,  and  a  bright  little  daughter  cheers  their  home  on  the 
very  spot  where  the  old  Methodist  church  stood  in  which 
Shelby  Academy  was  first  opened.  Bell  and  Mary  Murdock,  hale 
good  Scotch  girls  as  they  always  were,  keep  house  for  their 
father  and  keep  it  well,  you  may  be  sure.  Ada  French  is  the 
wife  of  Bradford  Dearing,  our  trusty  merchant  tailor,  and  lives 
to  make  their  home  cheerful  near  by  the  old  Seminary  building. 
May  Jolly  now  writes  her  name  with  Silver — she  is  the  wife  of 
Walter  Silver,  the  genial  grocer;  and  her  sister  has  become 
Mrs.  Angel,  living  near  Moweaqua,  Illinois. 

But  this  chapter  is  growing  long,  and  there  are  still  others 
living  in  the  region  round  about  whom  we  should  like  to  recall. 


110  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

There  are  Aaron  Cutler,  Simon  Gallagher,  Jermiah  Huffer., 
Peter  Fleming,  John  Kensil,  Phillip  Koessler,  Henry  Stilge- 
bower — all  good  fellows — and  we  do  not  know  how  many  more- 
who  are  now  men  of  families  on  farms  and  doing  good,  each  im 
his  way. 


ABOUT  SOME  WHO  ARE  SCATTERED  ABROAD. 

Finally  let  us  take  a  friendly  glance  at  some  who  are 
scattered  abroad,  Fieldon  R.  Waggoner  has  earned  the  repu- 
tation of  a  very  skillful  surgeon  and  after  being  in  the  United 
States  service  is  now  enjoying  his  family  home  in  Grass  Valley,. 
California.  Mert  Baker  is  the  courteous  agent  of  the  American 
Express  Company  at  Chicago,  Illinois.  Amos  Rhodes  is 
clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  at  Taylorville,  Illinois.  William 
Atkinson,  the  same  pleasant  man  that  he  was  as  a  school  boy, 
does  business  in  Hutchinson,  Kansas.  Samuel  Huber  is  in  the 
Gospel  ministry,  somewhere  in  Wyoming  Territory.  Adolph 
Sumerlin  is  the  enterprising  editor  of  the  Mattoon  Commercial 
and  ran  a  close  race  for  County  Judge  at  last  election;  and  Frank 
Shutt  is  Postmaster  at  Litchfield,  Illinois.  Ephraim  Mc- 
Cracken  and  William  Killam  are  enterprising  farmers  not  many 
miles  from  Shelby ville;  if  there  is  a  Sunday  school  convention  or 
a  temperance  meeting  in  the  vicinity  they  are  always  there  to 
help,  and  so  is  John  Killam.  How  could  the  four  Lufkin  boys 
be  otherwise  than  useful  men,  having,  as  they  do,  so  wise  and  good 
a  mother?  Frank  is  in  the  law  office  of  the  famous  prohibitionist, 
ex-Governor  St.  John,  Olathe,  Kansas ;  Harry  is  across  the  sea  in 
Berlin  studying  to  be  a  physician;  Charles  and  Dudley  are  in 
business  in  Fairbault,  Minnesota.  Fred  Harding — pleasantly 
remembered  as  a  universal  genius  and  ever  ready  to  serve 
you — is  now  settled  down  to  business  in  Champaign 
Illinois;  and  Ebbie  Prince  has  held  for  years  an  honorable 
place  oh  the  staff  of  the  Bloomington  (Illinois)  daily  and 
weekly  Pantograph,  The  sounds  sent  forth  by  Julius 


THIRRISSA  TRAVIS  (GR.1YBILL.) 


-SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  ill 

Hoessler  still  linger  sweetly  in  the  memory  of  many  in 
Shelby ville,  and  when  we  lost  him,  Springfield,  Missouri,  gained 
a  first  class  musician.  Not  very  long  ago  Thomas  T.  Holloway, 
took  for  his  wife  one  of  Shslbyville's  fairest  daughters  (Miss 
Edith  Trower )  and  went  to  make  a  home  in  Dallas,  Texas;  and 
there  he  is  established  as  a  talented  attorney-at-law, — the  true 
gentleman  he  always  was.  Hjspitabls  Christopher  Snyder 
used  to  live  near  Moawequa,  Illinois.  Where  is  he  now? 
Then  there  are  John  W.  Johnson's  sons,  where  are  they? 
Wesley  is  practicing  and  pleading  law  in  Graham,  Texas,  and 
Solon  is  making  himself  useful  as  an  architect  in  Akron, 
Colorado.  Then,  there  is  John  D.  Bruster,  jr.,  a  manly  boy  in 
school  days,  and  he  and  his  sister  Eliza  were  nearly  always 
together  then — is  a  man  of  family  near  Bell  Plain,  Kansas; — and 
,  James  Durkee,  who  married  Mary  Jane  Bruster,  lives  soine- 
•  where  in  Kansas;  the  wife  has  a  star  to  her  name.  And  generous 
George  Edward  Dilley  deserves  a  vote  of  thanks  from  us 
ail  for  his  aid  to  this  memorial,  — the  Lord  has  prospered  him  in 
Palestine,  Texas,  where  his  home  is  lighted  by  the  the  smiles  of 
wife  and  children.  Esther  Guilford  is  now  the  widow  Davis  and 
lives  with  her  daughter  Mrs.  Hamilton  at  Pana,  Illinois.  Eliza 
Bruster,  now  Mrs.  H.  S.  Mouser,  is  in  Altoona,  Dakota,  no 
doubt  working  as  ever  "For  God  and  Home  and  Native  Land." 
Lolo  Dexter  is  the  noble  wife  of  Prof.  Maple,  President  of 
the  State  Normal  University,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin;  and  her 
brother  Charles  lives  in  that  same  city,  a  prosperous  merchant 
with  a  pleasant  family.  With  Lolo  and  Charles  we  always 
think  of  their  beautiful  and  ever  smiling  brother,  "Willie," 
who  went  where  there  is  no  death,  with  his  sainted  mother 
and  grandmother  during  that  terrible  year  for  Shelby- 
ville,  1855.  Gussie  Fouke  is  the  Christian  helpmeet  of 
Elder  J.  G.  Waggoner,  the  good  preacher  and  pastor  of  a 
congregation  in  Eureka,  Illinois.  Jennie  Downs,  amiable  girl 
that  she  was,  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  T.  C.  Lapham  and  so 
long  ago  that  now  they  are  blessed  with  children  grown  in  their 


112  SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL. 

home,  far  away  in  the  land  of  the  Dakotaa     Dora  Cannon — affa- 
ble, playful  Dora  as  we  knew  her  in  early  school  days — is  now 
the  more  retired  but  kind  hearted  as  ever  Mrs.  Higbee  (widow) 
residing  in  Canton,  Illinois,  and  honored  with  a  son  who  earns 
a  good  salary  in  the  United  States  Mail  Service.     Of  course  we 
all  remember  Melissa  Earp, — the  bright  and  merry  school  girl 
— now  the  womanly  Mrs.  May,  wife  of    "Captain"  May;  and 
they  live  somewhere   in   the  sunny  South  where   orange  blos- 
soms blow  and  the  magnolia  makes  the  air  fragrant.     John  B. 
Cutler,   the   hopeful   boyy  is  now   the   manly   young   man  of 
business  in  Chicago,  and  he  was  among  the  first  to  send  us  a 
cheering  letter   in  behalf  of    this  Memorial.      We   have  just 
heard   that   the   two   sisters,   Minnie  and  Katie   Funk  live  in 
Fort  Worth,  Texas.     Minnie   is   now   Mrs.  Bird   and  Katie  is 
Mrs.  Patterson.      We  have  always  heard  good  words  of  them. 
In   writing  the  foregoing  we    thought    often   of     Nelson 
Neil  the  sturdy,  honest  farmer  who    lives    near    Tower    Hill, 
and  we   also  meant  before  this  to    mention  our  friend  Peter 
Killam  and  his  good  wife  (whom  we  all  knew  and  admired  at 
school  as  Caroline  Pugh ) ;  their  home  is  somewhere  in  Kansas, 
we   have  forgotten   where.      And  there  are  more  of  the  name 
Guilford   who  deserved  mention  with  their  relatives,  William 
and  Esther,  so  highly  esteemed  for  their  many  virtues  by  those 
who  know  them  ;  and  so  we  might  go  over  the  alphabet  to 
.  find  names  under  each  letter  that  equally  call  for  notice,  but 
•have  been  so  prominent  in  our  mind  that  they  have  failed  to 
get  on  paper.     Forgive  us,  O  dear  reader,  if  we  have  slighted 
you!     We  did  not  mean  to. 

And  there  is  Peyton  Story, — the  kind  hearted  son  of 
the  old  school  master,  Story?  Alas  !  we  do  not  know  what 
has  become  of  him.  Is  he  in  the  land  of  the  living?  and  if  so 
where?  , 

What  an  array  of  useful  men  and  women!  all  contributing, 
more  or  less,  to  the  sum  total  of  the  world's  welfare. 

Behold   how    a    little  town  of    scarce  three  thousand  in- 


SHELBYVILLE  SEMINARY  MEMORIAL.  113 

habitants  has,  like  a  healthy  beehive,  swarmed  and  sent  forth 
hosts  of  busy  men  and  women  to  scatter  sweetness  and  light 
through  the  world!  We  that  remain  grieve  that  they  could 
not  all  have  remained  with  us  to  aid  in  building  up  a  larger  and 
better  community  round  about  the  old  play  grounds;  but  since 
they  needs  must  go  away,  we  are.  thankful  that  their  light 
shines  back  to  us  in  vivid  memories  that  strengthen  and  cheer, 
as  we  fight  on,  in  life's  battle,  hoping  for  victory  at  last. 

And  there  is — but  we  despair  of  finding  out  about  all,  even 
Auntie  Graham  cannot  tell  where  they  pll  are;  for  we  have  just 
been  interviewing  her  and  she  gives  it  up.  And  so  we  must 
end  this  chapter  listening  and  listening  for  voices  that  have  not 
yet  answered  our  roll  call, — only  adding,  that  perhaps  several 
whose  names  are  not  marked  with  a  star,  indicating  death, 
should  be  so  marked,  and  some  few  who  are  not  dead  may,  by 
mistake,  be  thus  marked;  as,  for  instance,  in  the  case  of  Jane  S. 
Roland,  that  star  should  be  at  the  name  of  her  angel  sister, 
Anna,  while  she  who  has  been  familiarly  known  as  "Jennie"  is  the 
widow  Torrence  who  embarked  a  few  weeks  ago  with  a  band  of 
missionaries  for  the  Dark  Continent,  and  will  probably  sing 
hymns  this  Christmas  time  (1886)  with  the  natives  at  Monrovia, 
Africa. 

But  wherever  any  of  the  dear  old  acquaintances  of  this 
dear  old  school  may  be,  whether  on  land  or  sea,  at  home  or 
abroad,  we  hereby  send  to  each  and  all  our  best  winged  thoughts, 
and  O!  that  all  those  teachers  and  pupils, — more  than  one 
thousand  strong — some  on  this  side  and  some  on  the  other  side 
of  the  River,  might  join  with  all  evangels  of  mercy  in  the  glad 
chorus  of  the  nativity:  "Glory  to  God  in  the  highest;  on 
earth  peace,  and  good  will  to  men!" 


CONCLUDING  REFLECTIONS. 

FAITH — HOPE—  CHARITY. 

The  task  of  the  editor  of  this  little  book  is  done;  and  that 
his  work  is  very  defective  no  one  can  be  more  painfully  con- 
scious than  tiimself.  It  must  bear  the  marks  of  having  been 
written  in  haste  and  by  snatches.  There  has  been  no  time  for 
figures  of  rhetoric  nor  literary  embellishment.  We  have  merely 
tried  to  speak  right  on  and  state  facts  of  interest  to  all  concern- 
ed, in  the  briefest  manner  possible. 

"After  thoughts"  are  what  printers  in  correcting  "proof" 
dread;  and  in  the  preparation  of  this  little  book  the  editor  has 
frequently  troubled  his  printers  in  this  way.  And  now  when 
at  the  end  of  the  volume  we  can  see  how  it  might  be  greatly 
improved  if  we  could  only  rewrite  and  reprint  all  of  the  back 
pages.  But  "what  is  written  is  written,"  and  printed,  too,  in 
this  case,  and  must  remain.  Such  is  life;  we  are  not  permitted 
to  erase  and  rewrite  its  chapters.  "What  is  written  is  written" 
forever.  AVe  can  only  improve  on  those  clean  pages  that  re- 
main for  us, — we  may  add  a  chapter  of  "afterthoughts,"  re- 
flections. 

In  speaking  of  persons  in  this  memorial,  without  indulging 
in  unmerited  praise  we  have  nevertheless  meant  to  overlook 
faults  and  keep  in  view  the  great  Apostles  injunction:  "What- 
soever things  are  pure,  whatsoever  things  are  lovely,  whatsoever 
things  are  of  good  report,  if  there  be  any  virtue,  and  if  there  be 
any  praise,  THINK  ON  THESE  THINGS."  This  is  not  a  political 
nor  strictly  historical  document,  in  which  candid  and  honest 
criticism  would  be  proper,  but  it  is  rather  a  souvenir  of  pleasant 
memories.  We  have  wanted  to  gather  only  pure  jewels  for  this 


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souvenir,  and  therefore  we  have  been  quite  willing  to  "see  the 
past  through  a  rosy  mist  of  memory,  transfigured  by  the 
eternal  magic  of  youth." 

In  so  far  as  our  readers  are  in  a  charitable  mood,  they 
will  not  complain  that  we  have  found  no  fault  of  any  one;  al- 
though they  may  well  join  us  in  regrets  that  more  persons  are 
not  conspicuously  noticed  who  richly  deserve  it  and  whose 
names  are  barely  mentioned  in  the  forgoing  pages.  But  so  it  is 
in  this  world,  and  so  it  ever  will  be  until  the  great  Book  of  the 
recording  angel  is  opened.  Then  shall  we  see  as  we  also  are 
seen,  and  justice  shall  be  done;  and  then,  too,  many  of  our  poor 
human  estimates  may  be  surprisingly  changed.  God  is  just, 
and  will  suffer  no  wrong  at  last  to  any  one.  "The  only  harm 
that  can  come  to  me  is  the  harm  that  I  do  myself,"  said  the 
good  saint  Bernard. 

And  so,  in  the  spirit  of  the  heavenly  three — Faith,  Hope 
and  Charity — we  conclude  this  imperfect  tribute  to  the  memory 
of  the  dear  old  school. 

Those  school  days  can  never  come  back  again,  just  as  they 
were.  They  are  a  lost  Paradise  with  most  of  us.  They  only 
come  to  us  now  with  tender  regrets  and  fond  recollections.  We 
shall  never  all  meet  again  on  earth.  But  happy  are  we  if  we 
may  go  on  our  way  bright  with  hopes  of  a  glad  greeting  in  the 
"Sweet  By  and  By," — happy  are  we  if  we  may  sing  of  the  Past 
with  our  own  American  poet,  Bryant: — 

They  have  not  perished — no! 
Kind  words,  remembered  voices  once  so  sweet 

Smiles  radiant  long  ago, 
And  features,  the  great  soul's  apparent  seat. 

All  shall  come  back,  each  tie 
Of  pure  affection  shall  be  knit  again; 

Alone  shall  Evil  die, 
And  Sorrow  dwell  a  prisoner  in  thyreign 


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